Summary
Sergey Alekseev is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sydney with 11 years of experience building search, AI, RAG, logistics, e-commerce, voice assistant and observability systems across startups and large tech firms. He has progressed from infrastructure and monitoring at Mail.Ru through NLP and voice assistant work at Yandex to accessibility at Canva, ESG at IBM, and recent staff roles focused on search and AI at Dovetail and ProfitPeak. Sergey blends deep engineering with product-minded thinking, shipping end-to-end features that span backend systems, geo/logistics, and ML-enabled experiences. He’s comfortable mentoring teams and translating research-driven approaches into production-quality services. A pragmatic early adopter of developer tooling and AI assistance, he often leverages Copilot-style workflows to accelerate delivery while keeping code quality in focus. Trained with a Master’s in Computer Science and Automation, he pairs formal academic foundations with broad hands-on experience across the software stack.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer science and automation, Master Computer science and automation at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University)
Английский