Alexander Sokolov Email & Phone Number

Bucharest, Romania

Lviv, Lvivska Oblast, UA

• Actively engaged in day-to-day development and cloud infrastructure tasks, ensuring hands-on involvement and oversight.
• Led software engineering management, overseeing the entire development lifecycle.
• Cultivated and managed a high-caliber technical talent pool.
• Designed and executed effective technical talent-hiring and interview processes.
• Orchestrated internal software architecture and development processes.
• Upheld a robust DevOps culture and software development best practices.

• Designed, developed, and deployed efficient data infrastructures, ETL/ELT processes on Google Cloud, AWS, and self-managed data platforms.
• Experienced with both streaming and batch analytics. Implemented Lambda and Kappa Architectures.
• Designed Data Warehouses (Kimball’s dimensional model), Data Lakes, and Data Lakehouses with Medallion architecture.
• Implemented approaches to ensure and monitor data quality, data lineage, and data provenance.
• Consulted and guided implementation of DataOps and MLOps practices in teams of data engineers and data scientists.
• Designed and developed CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins.

• Led agile and focused team of dozens highly skilled engineers and consultants.
• Involved in technical sales and presales, as well as software and cloud architecture development.
• Operated in various areas of development and consulting, with a primary focus on DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineering, Data Science and Data Engineering, and Software Testing Automation.

Work From Anywhere, Remote, OO

• Toptal core team member at Data Engineering and Data Science team.
• Designed, developed and maintained high-performance ETL/data processing and data analytics solutions, data warehouses, data lakes.
• Designed and developed software for data quality, data observability, and data lineage.
• Leveraged Data Science/ML for internal data analysis and making a prediction based ondata.
• Developed internal KPI and metrics for individual/team-based performance monitoring.
• Maintained the stability of GCP (Google Cloud Platform) data infrastructure and troubleshoot data pipeline issues to minimize ”data downtime”.

Newtown, PA, US

• Developed Big Data solutions using Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, resulting in improved data processing efficiency and scalability.
• Applied machine learning algorithms, particularly XGBoost, to enhance predictive modeling and decision-making processes.
• Conducted comprehensive data analysis using Python, Pandas, and Jupyter Notebooks, delivering actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of Cloudera and Hortonworks platforms into existing workflows.

Newtown, PA, US

• Led the design and implementation of databases on the Microsoft SQL Server Platform, optimizing performance and ensuring data integrity.
• Developed and maintained ETL processes using SSIS and T-SQL, enhancing data flow and integration across systems.

Physics

Bachelor'S Degree, Law