Alexey Volkov
Соучредитель at DigitalWand
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolAlexey Volkov is a seasoned software leader and co-founder with 11 years of experience building web platforms and managing engineering teams from Moscow. As co-founder of DigitalWand he combines hands-on development with project and company management, hiring, and project estimation across public-sector, media, and consumer projects. He previously led web teams at Notamedia delivering large government portals and mobile apps, introducing CI, custom CMS modules, and search/analytics integrations. Alexey is also an active game developer and physics/collision specialist in open-source — contributing notable improvements to the Flame Flutter game engine like advanced raycasting and performance optimizations. His background in labour psychology and management informs a pragmatic, people-centered approach to process design and developer training. Colleagues know him for preferring elegant, efficient solutions that minimize repetitive work.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Специалист, Labour psychology and management, 5, Специалист, Labour psychology and management, 5 at Московский Государственный Университет Путей Сообщения (МИИТ)
Russian, English
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Github Skills (12)
physics-engine10
flame10
raycast10
collision-detection10
flutter-game10
dart10
game-development10
game-engine10
raycasting10
flutter-apps10
game-dev10
flutter10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
flame-engine/flame
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A Flutter based game engine.
Role in this project:
Game Developer & Collision/Physics Engine Specialist
Game Developer & Collision/Physics Engine SpecialistContributions:55 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily focused on enhancing the game engine's collision detection system, implementing and refactoring broadphase algorithms and related functionalities. They added support for advanced collision scenarios involving various hitbox types, specifically focusing on raycasting implementations for the Flame engine. Furthermore, the user added new features, such as the ability to clear the TiledAtlas cache and to use `toImageSync` in image composition, optimizing the performance of the game engine. They made the game engine more flexible by adding the possibility to prevent propagating collision events from ShapeHitbox to _hitboxParent, demonstrating significant contributions to the engine's core functionalities.
gamegamedevdartgame-developmentflame
litgame/single_player_app
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 126 commits, 75 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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