Summary
Aliaksandr Damaronak is a senior software engineer based in Amsterdam with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, particularly around Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Go. He has driven migrations from legacy monoliths to microservices, built real-time Postgres-to-Elasticsearch indexing tools, and led developer-facing platforms for managing 100+ Kafka clusters at Adevinta. Comfortable in DevOps-adjacent roles, he authors infrastructure components like a Terraform provider and in-house Kafka UIs that streamline operator workflows. He also founded internal education initiatives to raise team capabilities, reflecting a blend of hands-on delivery and mentorship. Notably, his career spans both product-impacting work (search and subscription scalability) and live-site reliability as an on-call owner for a managed Kafka platform.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Radioelectronics, Bachelor's degree, Radioelectronics at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
English, Russian