Alexander Prokopchuk

Education

2005-2008

Bachelor degree in Computer Science; Ventspils Augstskola (Ventspils, Latvia)

Thesis title: Bin packing algorithms comparison and optimization

Experience

2018-2020 - Team Lead at SIA DYNATECH

Leading a team of 5 developers (including myself), translating business tasks to technically doable assignments, supporting and developing 4 complex projects aimed at streamlining and automating business processes in the travel industry sector.

2016-2018 - CTO at BRAINGINES SARL:

Architecture design and planning, development of core libraries in C++/C#/JS, performing as lead engineer in digital signal processing R&D department.

2008-2016 - Software developer at Dyninno Group

Developing in-house ERP system for bookkeeping and business process automation in PHP. From 2014 also performed as team leader.

Technical Experience

Main Programming Languages

PHP: More than ten years of experience, mostly for backend use-cases:

• Development of horizontally scalable services without common shared app state.
• Development of microservices with stable API.
• Some experience with HHVM/Hack.

C++: Five years of experience.

• Development of audio processing soft real-time applications
• Development of low-level system code using Steinberg VST, Chromium Embedded Framework, Google Protobuf, Boost
• Development in CUDA/Thrust for NVidia GPUs

C#/.NET: More than ten years of experience, both client and server applications:

• Development of cross-platform bookkeeping/CRM system as a set of .NET Core 2.0 microservices using ASP.NET Core, EntityFramework Core.
• Development of now obsolete Windows Forms applications.
• Developing cross-platform CLI utilities for server administration tasks automation

JavaScript: More than ten years of experience, both client and server side:

• Developing complicated business process workflow automation system
• Developing a server side mockup for a set of services to continuously test client side JS apps.

Rust: Spare time experiments in search of replacement for C++, mostly for audio processing purposes.

Open Source Contributions

Occasional contributions and bug reports to various open source projects over the years:

• Google cAdvisor
• Microsoft EntityFrameworkCore
• Onlyoffice CommunityServer
• MSIKLM
• Onlyoffice DocumentServer
• rust-vst2
• rust compiler
• Nancy.Metadata.Swagger: one, two

OS Audio Software

Developing open source VST plugins for audio production. This project was short lived since BRAINGINES hired me as a contractor soon after I’ve started publishing my work.

Extra Information

• Other skills:

  • WebSocket, Google Protobuf, Node.js, Linux, Linux Kernel patching and cross-compilation for ARM, docker, docker-compose, MySQL, MS SQL, git, subversion, collectd/inlfluxdb/cAdvisor/grafana

• Coursera.org

  • Functional Programming Principles in Scala: 100.0%, with Distinction.
  • Introduction to Digital Sound Design: 93.8%, with Distinction.

• Languages:

  • English (intermediate)
  • Russian (native)
  • Latvian (intermediate)

• Github accounts:

  • kykc
  • automatl

aleksandrs.prokopcuks@gmail.com • +371 2 6145106 •
address - Riga, Latvia