Oleksandr Mekhovov
Sr. Lead Software Engineer at Coupa Software
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolOleksandr Mekhovov is a senior lead software engineer with over 15 years of professional experience and more than 17 years involved in designing, crafting and administrating software. Based in Hamburg, he has been shaping large-scale Ruby on Rails systems at Coupa since 2015 and advanced from senior developer to Sr. Lead Software Engineer, driving architecture and delivery across complex modules. His background spans full development lifecycle, team leadership, code review and performance troubleshooting for high‑traffic SaaS and big‑data products, with hands‑on expertise in testing and deployment automation. Earlier roles range from CTO-level engineering at Pay with a Tweet to system administration and automation work in healthcare and enterprise settings, giving him strong operational instincts. A frequent conference speaker, he combines deep Rails craftsmanship with pragmatic leadership and a history of rescuing legacy apps and improving observability. Notably, his career path shows a steady shift from infrastructure and QA into senior engineering leadership while remaining an active, hands‑on developer.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Dnipropetrovsk Lyceum of Information TechnologiesBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Dnipropetrovsk National University
English, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (44)
pacemaker9
recurly8
integrate7
api7
ruby-on-rails7
sprockets6
asset-pipeline6
ruby6
sidekiq6
pipeline5
gitlab5
facebook5
rails5
sass5
atlas4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mekhovov/banana_beer
Jun 2017 - Sep 2021
[WIP] My Blog
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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