
Arshavski Alexander
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Developer
Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia
Toptal member since October 17, 2026
Alexander is a senior full-stack engineer and solution architect with 20+ years of experience delivering production-grade solutions in Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript, now extended into AI/LLM and agent workflows. He co-founded Caaresys, which was acquired by Harman/Samsung, and led a 25-person R&D organization, and shipped features for NetApp's flagship product. Since 2017, Alexander has completed 20+ consulting engagements across fintech, healthtech, cybersecurity, automotive, and AI.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python - 20 years
- Django - 20 years
- JavaScript - 16 years
- AWS IoT - 14 years
- React - 14 years
- Node.js - 12 years
- Docker - 12 years
- Kubernetes - 8 years
Work Experience
Founder | Fractional CTO | Solution Architect
Almas
- Provided independent consulting services as a fractional CTO, solution architect, and senior developer for over 20 client engagements.
- Delivered AI/LLM builds for clients, including talktothecto.com, Bespoke, and BountyB.
- Designed solution architecture for Loma Technology and Cypago, including data modeling.
- Developed Python back ends for Euno (FastAPI/React), Weka (Flask/React), Autodesk (Django), Fornova (Django), Reblaze (Tornado/Vue), Whitestream (Tornado/Meteor), and Madsec (Meteor).
- Built front-end applications for EEGSense (React), Constru (Vue), Sunbit (TypeScript/React), Viking Digital (Django/Nuxt.js), and MeetingMinutes (Node.js/React).
- Delivered DevOps solutions for Dazn, Altonotch, and Munch.
Senior Full-stack Developer
NetApp
- Delivered features for NetApp's flagship cloud storage product, a business line generating approximately $30 million in ARR, as a senior full-stack engineer on a 20-person product team.
- Built and owned back-end services in Python and Flask supporting the product's core workflows.
- Developed the React front end for those services, delivering customer-facing functionality end to end.
Co-founder and Vice President of R&D
Caaresys
- Co-founded an automotive sensor company spanning hardware and software products and exited via Harman acquisition in 2022.
- Established the R&D function from the ground up by hiring and leading a 10-person engineering team plus offshore contractors.
- Shipped contactless vital-signs sensor systems for vehicle occupants to major automotive OEMs; the technology was validated by the 2022 Harman (Samsung) acquisition.
- Owned end-to-end R&D processes and ran Agile delivery as scrum master.
Vice President of R&D
Cronus
- Led a 25-person organization spanning R&D, research, QA, and automation, including an offshore team.
- Re-architected the company's flagship penetration testing management platform from the ground up by replacing its legacy codebase.
- Launched a Python and Django web platform and drove sprint delivery as scrum master.
Web Team Leader
Cyren
- Rebuilt the company's security policy configuration platform from scratch.
- Consolidated two offshore back-end and client teams into a single seven-person full-stack team and acted as its scrum master.
- Migrated the tech stack from Pyramid to Django and from Vanilla JS to Marionette.js.
Python Tech Lead
Tikal
- Headed the company's Python practice as group lead, expert, and consultant, advising client engineering teams.
- Engineered a video-call proxy for Radvision and a personal health-management platform for Healarium.
- Owned technical presales and scoping for new Python engagements, turning prospect conversations into won client work.
Senior Web Developer
PeerTV
- Developed a CMS server for set-top box content management, as well as billing and EPG management subsystems.
- Built the operator-facing admin dashboard that let telco customers manage content catalogs, billing plans, and EPG schedules without engineering support.
- Architected the content ingestion pipeline that pulled video metadata and EPG feeds from upstream providers into the CMS catalog.
Founder
Ekkli
- Built a collaborative decision-making platform with a semantic prediction engine on NLTK.
- Founded Ekkli, hired and led a seven-person engineering team from zero through MVP and launch.
- Owned the full Django, NLTK, and front-end stack end to end, from architecture through shipping to users.
Web Developer
Accept Software
- Created a generic API automation tool from scratch.
- Built the tool on Django 0.96—one of the earliest production Django deployments at the company.
- Designed the tool as a configuration-driven framework so new API integrations could be onboarded without code changes.
QA Engineer
GE Healthcare
- Engineered test automation that cut the CT imaging QA cycle from two weeks to two hours.
- Built the automation framework in Perl, replacing manual visual regression QA with scripted image-diff and workflow runs.
- Worked directly against CT scanner hardware R&D builds, writing test suites that exercised scanner calibration, image reconstruction, and clinical workflow paths.
Project History
AI agents for BespokeLabs
https://bespokelabs.aiI designed DevOps and SRE scenarios that mirrored real production failures. Each task dropped an AI agent into a live, containerized infrastructure environment. The agent then had to diagnose the fault and fix it on its own, just like an on-call engineer.
Quality meant calibrated difficulty, not just a task that ran. Consequently, I tuned each scenario so that even strong agents failed more often than they succeeded. I verified this with repeated evaluation runs and strict variance thresholds. As a result, my accepted tasks became reliable benchmarks that pushed frontier agents to improve.
Built TalkToTheCTO
https://talktothecto.comFreelancers often struggle to get noticed by the right people, as HR departments typically do not hire them. The challenge was to create a system that identifies hiring intent and connects freelancers with executives who have the authority to hire.
The platform empowered freelancers to connect efficiently with decision-makers, improving their chances of securing projects.
Sales Web App for Weka
https://www.weka.ioWEKA's storage ran on real, on-prem hardware clusters. Therefore, every deal needed the right mix of nodes, capacity, and performance. However, sizing and pricing those clusters by hand was slow and error-prone. So the sales team needed a fast, reliable way to model each configuration. That gap defined my work.
I shipped these tools in close collaboration with the CTO. Therefore, the calculator matched WEKA’s real hardware and pricing logic exactly. As a result, the team could size, price, and document a cluster in one place. Ultimately, the work removed manual guesswork from the quoting process.
Cyber GRC
https://cypago.comThe core challenge was clear: compliance teams needed to ask complex, nuanced questions of their organizational data. This multi-condition logic drives meaningful compliance and security insights.
I separated the agnostic tree-traversal layer from the database-specific query generation. As a result, the system supported sophisticated compliance searches. Furthermore, it stayed flexible enough to evolve from SQL to Neo4j without rewriting the core decision logic.
Financial App for Sunbit
https://sunbit.comIn just a few months, we–a team of two–had a full version of the app with various pages, wizards, and flows.
The team and the project were expected to grow pretty fast, so there was an effort to separate the logic and the representation. A lot of thought and planning went into the right architecture, structuring TypeScript classes, and data flows.
Back then, Sunbit was a very small startup, so the app we developed helped the company reach many customers and meet its financial goals.
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA)
Tel Aviv University - Tel Aviv, Israel
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Netanya Academic College - Netanya, Israel
Certifications
Machine Learning
Stanford University | via Coursera
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Vue, Node.js, React Testing Library, Fabric, Backbone.js, Marionette.js
Tools
Webpack, SaltStack, Chef, Jenkins, TeamCity, NGINX, Apache, Claude Code, Codex, GTK
Languages
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, GraphQL, Bash, Perl, Java, C#, C++, HTML, SQL
Frameworks
Django, Flask, Cypress, Jest, Pyramid, Angular, Nuxt.js, Qt
Paradigms
DevOps, Management, Agile
Platforms
Docker, Kubernetes, AWS IoT, Django CMS, Buildkite, Meteor, Oracle
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Microsoft SQL Server, RethinkDB, Neo4j
Other
FastAPI, APIs, API Integration, AI Systems, API Design, Agentic AI Systems, Orchestration, Back-end Development, AI Agents, Agentic AI, NLTK, GCP, Express, Tornado, LLM Agents, Gemini, Development, Algorithms, Mathematics, ChromaDB, RAG Pipelines, Meta Llama, Machine Learning, GraphDB, Amazon Neptune, Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps), Large Language Models (LLMs)
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