Alexandr Kobrin

Full-Stack Developer | Team/TechLead

About me

Experienced software engineer with solid understanding of the best development practices, able to quickly investigate, evaluate, and adjust to new challenging contexts, to lead a multicultural team towards effective and mutually beneficial solutions. An avid learner with a focus on details, absorbing advanced technical manuals and mastering the cutting-edge innovations. More than 7 years of experience in three successful companies leading the entire web development lifecycle at more than 10 projects ensuring a high-quality and fulfillment of business and market needs.

Relevant Job experience

  • Frontend Engineer | CanvaNov '22 - now
  • Software Engineer | Team/TechLead at DashBouquetSep '18 - Aug '22
    - Designed and implemented pipeline to collect and visualize 1M+ records per day
    - Optimized and reduced device network traffic by 30-100 times through data aggregation and compression
    - Trained NN to perform highly accurate real-time age and gender estimation (98.5% – gender and 61% – age)
    - Innovated math-based people-tracking algorithm for computer vision data, which allowed to track up to 6 persons in a frame without loosing performance
    - Created 30+ small-to-medium applications for interactive screens, 3 complicated dashboards using React.JS
    - Developed 3 applications with 3D-environment and physics using Three.JS and WebGL
    - Implemented pipeline to generate custom Linux distribution kits with automatic installation, which saved about 30 mins per single setup
    - Overhauled and reconfigured the obsolete legacy source code of production application, resulting in 2 times faster deployment pipeline and increased development speed by an order of magnitude
    - Spearheaded teams from 2 to 8 engineers and combined project management role at 3 projects
    - Interviewed more than 50 candidates for engineering positions in the company, guided newcomers through the onboarding process and prepared for the first assignments
    - Facilitated 4 technical workshops for software engineers to introduce new technologies

  • Web developer at Paprikash StudioJul '17 - Sep '18
    - Performed hundreds of adjustments and feature-implementations of different complexity for 20+ e-commerce projects
    - Launched more than 10 landing pages
    - Produced more than 10 interactive and responsive and SEO-friendly landing pages
    - Designed and coded an application for work wear management in production that helps saving 1-2 hours a day for storekeepers
    - Developed front-end of web service for searching and buying tickets (buses, trains, planes)

  • Storekeeper at PromAgroPack-2007Jul '15 - Jul '17
    - Created internal web-based software for production processes automation that provides seamless communication with 5 different departments

Languages & skills

  • HTML5 / CSS3
  • JS/TS + Frameworks/Libraries (React)
  • NodeJS (Express, NestJS, SocketIO, etc.)
  • Python
  • PHP + Frameworks/CMSs
  • DB: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Elasticsearch, Redis
  • DevOps: Docker, AWS, CircleCI, Github Actions
  • NN: Tensorflow, Keras, posenet, openCV
  • Misc: Bash, SSH

Key expertise

  • English: C1 (advanced)
  • Web Software Engineering
  • Coding and automatization
  • Complex problem solving
  • Hosting and maintenance
  • Data architecture
  • R&D, making POC/MVPs

Research Interests

  • Algo / DS
  • Data Science / ML

Additional Info

  • Military status: ineligible and too old ;)
  • Hobbies: books, arduino, cycling, skiing
2023