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Name: Aleksei Markov Email: laladrik at pm.me

Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience. Core competencies: Rust, Go, C/C++, GNU/Linux, high-load web systems, and desktop applications. Additional skills: Python. I strive to understand systems and keep them simple. This allows my software to keep users happy and AWS bills lower.

Professional experience

Independent study & research

From Dec 2024 to present

Graphics programming & compiler engineering

Goal: learn to create graphics software and compilers.

Method: create two applications: a clone of an old game Space Invaders and a compiler for Tiger programming language.

Results of compilers study:

Implemented from scratch with Rust programming language the lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis for Tiger programming language.
Improved the knowledge of artificial language processing.
Applied the automated debugging with GDB.
Improved the knowledge of available debugging tools.

Results of graphics software study:

Created the game with the library SDL3 and its extensions for media in Zig programming language.
Applied the knowledge of Data-oriented design.
Enhanced the skill of developing desktop application development for GNU/Linux.
Improved the skill of creating cross-platform software for the following platforms: GNU/Linux, MS Windows, WebAssembly.

AWS Cloudfront

From Nov 2022 to Dec 2024

Monitoring system of the low-latency video streaming protocol

At AWS I helped to build the monitoring system for the distributed low latency streaming service from Prime Video.

Achievements:

Improved the data pipeline components written in Rust on top of AWS S3. The improvement implemented the support the new format of the data. Simplified some subsystems utilizing Rust features.
Taught Rust to the colleagues with various backgrounds.
Designed and implemented more precise calculation of loading of the nodes of the streaming service. This improved a high load system written in Go. The design required me to coordinate the work of people across the globe.
Implemented hot-reload of the configuration in a high load system written in C++. The configuration carried information about the changes in the fleet of server clusters distributed across the globe. Extended the tech stack of the project and improved the automated testing.
Fostered the new model of server clusters for the streaming service. Designed the project and the plan of work. Managed the execution of the plan across multiple teams across the globe.

Responsibilities:

Designing the system components, clarifying the requirements from a set of departments involved in the process.
Driving the design process from the idea to the paper, dealing with ambiguity in the inputs and lack of data.
Presenting projects to the team.
Implemented the components using a set of technologies: Rust, Go, C++, Python, Git, Amazon Web Services, Docker.
Updated the old development environments according to the security requirements.
Coached the team on matters related to Rust.
Maintained the software in production and investigated issues that caused customer impact.

Blackmoon

From Aug 2018 to Nov 2022

Cryptocurrency Trading Platform

As a part of a small development team, I improved existing components of the system and introduced new ones, upgraded version of the company’s core software product. Assisted devops and data science departments.

Achievements:

Implemented a data pipeline of a blockchain to export the world state to a decentralized application server. The implementation was in C++, but ported from Rust. The pipeline was on top Kafka.
Implemented a proxy between the HTTP and fix protocol in Go. The proxy was backed by Redis and PostgreSQL.
Implemented the communication between the core platform and the trading engine in Go. The communication worked on top of RabbitMQ. The data was stored in Redis and PostgreSQL.
Extended the infrastructure spread across the bare metal servers with Proxmox and AWS.

Responsibilities:

Utilization of a variety of languages, libraries, tools, protocols, including: Go, C++, Rust, Python 3.7, AIOHTTP, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgresql, SaltStack, Terraform, Git, Amazon Web Services, FIX, gRPC, Google Protobuf.
Designed a huge extension for existing system of microservices which work on trading. It includes: managing all trading events, analyzing of trading activity, adapting a trading engine for existing components.
Assisted the data science department.
Assisted the devops department.
Managed all technical subjects related to a trading engine with the development team as well as the data science team.
Participated in an Agile Development environment, including sprint planning and estimation.

Floship

From May 2018 to Aug 2018

Delivery service

As a self-contractor python backend developer I took tasks of integration of the core project and third party applications and developed new one. Achivements included:

Improved reliability of the integrations with Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce.
Implemented an integration with Amazon MWS.

Ringmaster Technologies, Inc

From Aug 2017 to Mar 2018

An insurance management project

Worked as a backend developer created a main the company’s core backend application. Fulfilling the role of a DevOps engineer setup continious delivery. Responsibilities included:

Designed the core project’s system and data flow scenarios against RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgresql.
Developed backend for platform with Django REST Framework and Python 3.6.
Testing software with PyTest.
Customization and integration of Meteorjs-based application Rocket.Chat.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipeline with Docker, TeamCity and GitLab.
Collaborated with programmers, quality assurance, UI desginers.
Managed Git repository, including code review, branching and merges of changes.

4XXI

From Aug 2014 to May 2017

Financial services, Research project

As a backend developer worked individually on updating and maintaining existing financial service, supporting its infrastracture taking tasks from devops field. As a part of a team, I participated in creation of new financial service. As the first member of R&D department created AI software dedicated to solve celestial mechanics problem.

Responsibilities included:

Maintained existing a financial service written in Python 2.7, Django 1.5, Backbone.js, Postgresql, jQuery
Collaborated with the product owner, the project manager.
Improved infrastracture.
Refactored code.
Created backend for a new financial service with Python 3.5, Django 1.8, Postgresql, Redis, Celery.
Research basic machine learning techniques, libraries, tools, including Numpy, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, XDGboost, Tensorflow.
Research different approaches in order to achieve better performance of data processing including, writing Python modules in C, implementing some components in Go.
Implemented infrastracture for research project with Docker and Docker Swarm.
Desgined, implemented and deployed a machine learning application solves celestial mechanics problem.

Achievements included:

Encrypted user related data in Postgresql.
Optimized database queries in the entire application, some of pages are got faster 20 times.
Improved exsisting infrastracture fault tolerance of the existing financial service.
Paper Evgeny A. Smirnov, Alexey B. Markov “Identification of asteroids trapped inside three-body mean motion resonances: a machine-learning approach” DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx999

Clever promo

From Jun 2012 to Nov 2013

Web-studio

As a part of web-studio development team worked on customers’ projects. Fulfilling the role of generalist programmer, I ran projects through full product lifecycle from design and task estimation through development, testing, release and live operations. Also, maintained exising projects.

Responsibilities included:

Developed and tested core library that was used across all Django-based projects.
Developed web-applications utilizing Python 2.7, Django 1.4/1.5, jQuery, Postgresql, Redis, Celery, JavaScript.
Maintained existing software written in PHP
Designed new features and components with a focus on the end user’s experience.
Assisted customers with questions of administration panel features.

Skills

Programming languages

Rust	Golang	C++	C	Python	JavaScript
5y+	9y+	5y+	5y+	7y+	9y+

Infrastructure

Linux	Postgresql	Docker	Redis	Nginx	RabbitMQ	Ansible
13y+	9y+	4y+	8y	5y+	8y	6y

General

English	Russian	Spanish
Advanced	Native	Basic

Independent projects

Xapian-haystack (Fall 2014 – winter 2014) – Xapian-haystack is a backend of Django-Haystack for the Xapian search engine.
LegsIK (Summer 2015 – Sprint 2016) – an Unreal Engine 4 plugin implements inverse kinematics for legs of a model writen in C++.
Jedi (Winter 2020 – Spring 2020) – a static analysis tool for Python that is typically used in IDEs/editors plugins.
Yasec (Summer 2020) – a Rust library builds configuration from environment variables.
FlameGraphViewer (2023) – a Rust application allows you to inspect huge flamegraphs which can’t be inspected in a browser as an SVG graph.
A clone of Space Invaders (2025) – a study project to learn game engine develoment by creating one. The project involves SDL 3 and Zig programming language.
Neotest (2025) – a framework for interacting with tests within NeoVim. My contribution was about extending the API to allow a user to access the buffer with the test output.