Alexander Konopko
Highly accomplished and results-oriented Backend Engineer with nearly two decades of experience in designing, developing, and scaling complex, high-performance backend systems. Proven track record of taking full ownership of critical platforms, driving company growth through technical leadership, and solving challenging problems in distributed systems and big data environments (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka). Seeking to leverage deep expertise in Java and system architecture to contribute to a challenging and innovative team
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Sole Ownership & Growth: Took sole responsibility for the entire platform as the single developer for 3 years, dr...
Sole Ownership & Growth: Took sole responsibility for the entire platform as the single developer for 3 years, driving the technical evolution that secured Seed funding and enabled key customer acquisitions
Scale & Revenue: Built a robust, infinitely scalable backend system that unlocked new customer acquisition and drove revenue to $10M ARR
Talent Acquisition: Interviewed and hired a team of strong professionals, effectively scaling the engineering department to support business growth
Scale & Performance: Resolved a critical Apache Spark bug to unlock system capacity, enabling the pipeline to ser...
Scale & Performance: Resolved a critical Apache Spark bug to unlock system capacity, enabling the pipeline to serve over 100 million requests per minute
Microservices Architecture: Designed, implemented, and maintained the suite of backend microservices that power the data platform
Open Source Leadership: Architected and led the development of Celos (github.com/collectivemedia/celos), an open-sou...
Open Source Leadership: Architected and led the development of Celos (github.com/collectivemedia/celos), an open-source Hadoop workflow scheduler for managing complex job dependencies
Product Delivery: Drove the project entirely from conception to public release, creating a robust tool for orchestrating big data workflows