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Aleksandr Melnichnikov

Software Engineer
Moscow

Summary

Enthusiastic software engineer eager to contribute to team success through hard work and attention to details. Track record of success with several big Russian companies. Solid history of spearheading back-end development of large-scale and complex projects from conception to completion. A team player with leadership and mentorship experience, as well as close collaboration with businesses to meet the needs of end users.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Meta
04.2022 - Current

Projects: Ads Free Subscription for Facebook/Instagram, Ads Data Filtering tools.

Accomplishments:

  • Implemented realtime filtering solution for ads data streams. With exceptional performance of avg <= 1ms lat.
  • Implemented backend features for Ads Free Subscription launched in Nov 2023 in Instagram and Facebook.

Techs: C++, Python, Hack

Software Engineer

Mail.ru Group (Cometrica LLC, Orbita Center LLC)
3 2019 - 02.2022

Project: Financial marketplace for entrepreneurs развивай.рф (razvivai.rf).

Accomplishments:

  • Implemented MVP and shipped it to production in 4 months.
  • Reduced infrastructure price twofold by profiling and tuning JVM apps.
  • Developed system design for platform.

Techs: Java, Kotlin, Groovy, PostgreSQL(debezium), Docker Swarm (migration process to Kubernetes), Kafka.

Note: Worked as contractor in Mail.ru Group from two related companies: Cometrica LLC, Orbita Center LLC

Lead Software Engineer

Divico LLC
05.2017 - 04.2020

Project: Internal bloggers search platform. Team lead of 5 remote employees.

Accomplishments:

  • Created infrastructure from scratch on bare metal using Proxmox virtualization and Docker.
  • Organized code review process.
  • Created analytics dataflow of YouTube, Instagram, VK bloggers, which helped to analyze trends in social networks. That highly increased marketing revenue.
  • Proposed and created a report management system through close collaboration with end-users that freed up 30 working hours within certain departments.

Techs: Java, Scala, PostgreSQL, Clickhouse, Cassandra, Docker Swarm, RabbitMQ, Spring Dataflow, Elasticsearch.

Software Engineer

Nexign
04.2016 - 03.2019

Projects:

  • MegaFon(tier 1 telecom operator) customer portal API, Billing API, Digital Tourism platform, Push notifications API, support chat. (https://lk.megafon.ru)
  • Billing Platform, API Gateway service

Accomplishments:

  • Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments, including testing features, correcting code and code reviewing.
  • Designed and developed a support chat that facilitated communication with end-users.
  • Contributed to Histone2 template engine. (https://github.com/MegafonWebLab/histone-java2)
  • Developed API gateway service based on GraphQL specification.
  • Developed API for tourist activity visualization in major Russian cities. (https://bdtour.megafon.ru/)
  • Assisted with the interviewing and hiring of software engineers.

Techs: Java, Vert.x, MongonDB, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, Docker Swarm.

Software Engineer

Eldorado LLC
07.2014 - 04.2016

Projects: Online store eldorado.ru and mobile application for employees.

Accomplishments:

  • Took a significant part in the development of online platform on SAP Hybris platform.
  • Rewrote PL/SQL business logic to Java API.
  • Created a mobile application using Apache Cordova that reduced cashiers workload in stores.

Techs: Java, JS(Apache Cordova), Oracle.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Moscow Aviation Institute
Moscow
09.2007 - 06.2013

Skills

    Languages(main): Java, Kotlin, Groovy

    RDBMS: PostgreSQL, Oracle

    NoSQL: MongoDB, Cassandra, Clickhouse, Elasticsearch, Infinispan

    Techs: Spring (Core, Cloud, Boot), ORMS (Hibernate, MyBatis), Java specs (JMS, JAX-RS, JAX-WS), JUnit, Spock, Testcontainers, GraphQL, VertX, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker (Swarm, Compose), Proxmox VE, SOA/REST/Web Services, WebSockets

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Meta
04.2022 - Current

Lead Software Engineer

Divico LLC
05.2017 - 04.2020

Software Engineer

Nexign
04.2016 - 03.2019

Software Engineer

Eldorado LLC
07.2014 - 04.2016

Master of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Moscow Aviation Institute
09.2007 - 06.2013

Software Engineer

Mail.ru Group (Cometrica LLC, Orbita Center LLC)
3 2019 - 02.2022
Aleksandr MelnichnikovSoftware Engineer