VP of Engineering
2013 - PRESENTCompany in the Mobile Entertainment Market- Hired and built up the back-end development team with an agile development cycle, from coding conventions to CI/CD.
- Implemented a microservices architecture with hundreds of servers spread between three AWS regions and multiple time zones.
- Deployed infrastructure at AWS China.
- Iterated on our deployment scheme, from custom shell scripts through Ansible and Packer to Terraform and ECS.
- Implemented a lot of tools for managing environments like admin API for the service, AWS ECS and S3, Datadog monitoring, or PagerDuty monitoring.
- Integrated a few monitoring systems for our applications and infrastructure, like Zabbix, NewRelic, and Datadog.
Technologies: Java Stack, AWS, Docker, TerraformPerformance Architect
2013 - 2014Software Vendor in the Aerospace Industry- Refactored a custom Swing application to render aircraft models with airflows. Instead of 1 FPS with keyboard manipulation, I was able to make all calculations in run-time with 40 FPS.
- Built up the whole development cycle with GitHub as source hosting, CI, tests, and nightly builds for QA.
Technologies: Java, Swing, JNIISV Engineer
2008 - 2013Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems)- Evangelized Oracle technologies and helped vendors to use Java and Solaris technologies in a more efficient way.
- Manged a few distributed teams to implement custom integrations and new architectures.
- Handled performance testing for new hardware and optimize software for software-in-silicon.
- Implemented a few integrations between Oracle Identity Management products and a few ERP systems from the Russian market.
Technologies: Java, Solaris, Oracle Database, MongoDB, BerkeleyDBPerformance Architect
2007 - 2008Top4Top- Worked with the Flash front end and Java back end on a MySQL, Solaris, and Tomcat cluster on Nginx.
Technologies: Flash, Java, MySQL, Solaris, Tomcat, NginxTeam Lead/Architect
2004 - 2007Epam Systems- Handled various Java outsourcing projects with Russian and foreign customers.
- Implemented a few intranet systems with GWT.
Technologies: JavaSenior Java Developer
2003 - 2004Diasoft- Developed an internet client for a banking system with JEE stack technologies.
Technologies: JEEJava Developer
2000 - 2001Luxoft- Worked on a few Java outsourcing projects with JSE and JEE technologies.
Technologies: Java
Alex Abashev
Technical Leadership Developer in Moscow, Russia
Member since September 25, 2012
Alexey is a talented Java architect with 20 years of experience developing scalable, high-load systems. He is a highly capable team lead and is practiced at arranging entire development environments according to best practices. He adheres to unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, and auto-deployment on the cloud or using dedicated hardware.
Alex is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Company in the Mobile Entertainment MarketJava Stack, AWS, Docker, Terraform
- Software Vendor in the Aerospace IndustryJava, Swing, JNI
- Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems)Java, Solaris, Oracle Database, MongoDB, BerkeleyDB
Experience
- Linux 20 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) 20 years
- Java 20 years
- Technical Leadership 15 years
- Spring 10 years
- AWS 8 years
- Continuous Delivery (CD) 5 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Mac, Linux, Idea, Git
The most amazing...
...thing I've done is give the keynote presentation at a developers' conference.
Employment
Experience
- Virtual File System for S3 API (Other amazing things)https://github.com/abashev/vfs-s3
My open-source project about implementing access to S3 storage with a unified interface. It was a Top 10 most downloadable artifact, and then I hosted it on Bintray.
Skills
Languages
Java, JavaScript, Groovy, SQL, Kotlin, HTML, CSS, HTML5Frameworks
Spring, Apache Spark, Hadoop, GWTTools
Terraform, GitHub, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, WildFlyParadigms
Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Web Architecture, Requirements Analysis, Agile Software Development, ScrumPlatforms
JEE, Solaris, Linux, Windows, Docker, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), JVMStorage
MongoDB, Memcached, Amazon SDB, Amazon Aurora, Berkeley DB, Oracle Rdb, AWS DynamoDB, Cache, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, Google CloudOther
AWS, SaaS, Deployment, Technical Leadership, Architecture, System Architecture, China, Big Data, Mobile Payments, VideoLibraries/APIs
Facebook API, Telegram Bot APIIndustry Expertise
Video Streaming
Education
- Master's degree in Computer Engineering1998 - 2005Bauman Moscow State University - Moscow, Russia
Certifications
- Solaris 10 System AdministratorJANUARY 2010 - PRESENTOracle
- Sun Certified Java Programmer – Java 6 (SCJP)JANUARY 2009 - PRESENTSun
