Summary
Oleksandr Tserkovnyi is a Full Stack Principal Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling web applications across startups and San Francisco Bay Area companies. He combines deep front-end expertise in Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind and performance-focused React patterns with pragmatic backend design using SQL/NoSQL, Redis, Kafka and APIs via tRPC/GraphQL/REST. Comfortable operating as architect, engineering manager and founder, he emphasizes clean architecture, automated docs and CI/CD practices enforced by tools like commitlint, Husky and Prettier. He’s fluent in cloud-native deployment—Kubernetes, Docker, Helm on GCP and AWS—and prefers Cloudflare and Firebase for low-latency, real-time experiences. A data-driven operator, he relies on distributed tracing, Kibana/Grafana monitoring and HTTP-level caching to reach O(1) performance at scale. Based in Kyiv with a background that includes founding startups and presenting at conferences, he pairs technical breadth with a practical focus on observability and developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Olympic and Professional sport – football coach, Bachelor's degree Olympic and Professional sport – football coach at Donetsk State University of Health Physical Training and Sport
Master's degree Web Design and Computer Science, Master's degree Web Design and Computer Science at IT STEP Academy