Oleksandr Kulkov is a software engineer at ETH Zürich with a decade of hands-on experience bridging competitive programming pedigree and production systems. He couples 11 years of competitive programming with strong algorithmic and mathematical instincts to design efficient C++ solutions, and is comfortable across Python, SQL, Lua, and C#. At ETH he builds reproducible cloud stacks and high-performance bioinformatics components (SSHash/Metagraph) and teaches linear algebra and algorithms. He contributes to and maintains the widely used cp-algorithms site, improving both front-end UX and back-end tooling for algorithm education. Past roles at Google and think-cell sharpened his skills in API migration, policy implementation and color-space engineering, showing a knack for pragmatic prototyping and robust C++ engineering. Outside work he organizes competitive programming camps and authors problem sets, reflecting a long-term commitment to developer education and community building.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Applied Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Algorithm and data structure articles for https://cp-algorithms.com (based on http://e-maxx.ru)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:88 reviews, 234 commits, 291 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Oleksandr contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the project. They implemented UI improvements such as content tabs and sidebar navigation. Furthermore, the user updated and maintained configuration files to support features like the addition of a literate-nav plugin, and the integration of meta tags. They also made changes to JavaScript and CSS files for enhanced functionality and visual display.
Contributions:2 commits, 26 PRs, 109 pushes in 1 day
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