Alexey Zhokhov
Angel Investor at Scentbird
Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolAlexey Zhokhov is a seasoned engineering leader and angel investor with 13 years of hands-on experience building high-load, scalable back-end systems and modern single-page applications. Currently CTO at ChainArgos and formerly VP of Engineering at Scentbird, he blends architecture, team building, and day-to-day coding to ship production-grade services, Kubernetes orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines. He has a strong Java and microservices pedigree, proven by open-source contributions improving Docker and GraphQL tooling and practical upgrades that enhance developer experience. Alexey has repeatedly driven costly migrations and efficiency gains—migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes, adopting GitLab CI/CD, and cutting ops costs—while still leading feature integrations and in-house platform development. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs performance engineering and search/big-data experience with a rare background in Chinese language and international multi-datacenter deployments. His mix of operator-level DevOps work and product-focused architecture makes him effective at turning complex distributed requirements into resilient, scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Linguist of Chinese language, Bachelor's degree Linguist of Chinese language at Heilongjiang University
Russian, Chinese, English
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Github Skills (20)
dependency-management10
docker10
web-application10
graphiql10
wpgraphql10
dockers10
java10
javas10
webapp10
wordpress-graphql10
spring-boot10
graphql10
web-development10
gradlew10
gradle10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-java-kickstart/graphql-spring-boot
May 2018 - Apr 2021
GraphQL and GraphiQL Spring Framework Boot Starters - Forked from oembedler/graphql-spring-boot due to inactivity.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily focused on upgrading dependencies and improving the GraphiQL interface for a Spring Boot GraphQL project. They upgraded the Gradle version and GraphiQL dependency, ensuring compatibility and performance. Key contributions included adding the ability to serve GraphiQL from a CDN and auto-detecting and enabling GraphQLResponseCache if an implementation is available, demonstrating expertise in configuration and integration. This work indicates a focus on improving the developer experience and optimizing the GraphQL service.
spring-bootspring-frameworkspring-boot-frameworkstartersdue
bmuschko/gradle-docker-plugin
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Gradle plugin for managing Docker images and containers.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 11 commits, 1 PR in 11 days
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily focused on maintaining and updating the project's infrastructure, specifically related to Docker integration. They made adjustments to the build process (gradlew.bat) and configuration to support different environments, including macOS Ventura. The user also refactored and tested the existing Docker configuration, ensuring correct auto-detection of Docker host settings. The user also made changes to gradle wrapper and reverting the changes.
containersgradledockerdocker-imagesgradle-plugin
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