Alexander Kharitonov | Projects
Software Architecture @ Coin Metrics
2019Present
VP of Engineering

What I've done as a VP of Engineering:

  • Created "Chain Monitor" Coin Metrics product (FARUM).
  • Establishing various company-wide engineering standards, reliability guidelines, API design specifications, common libraries, and services to maintain consistency between different projects and teams.
  • Software engineering and scaling strategy, making architectural decisions.
  • Software engineering oversight and reducing the complexity and maintainability of solutions.
  • Incident prediction, resolving, and troubleshooting.
  • Scaling engineering org structure, interviewing candidates, and mentoring technical leaders.
  • Got O-1, EB-2 NIW (US) & Global Talent (UK) visas and ultimately moved to Boston.

What I've done as a Lead Software Engineer (till Jan 2021):

  • Created a highly loaded, distributed, and reliable Coin Metrics API (API v4)
  • Created an Access Management System for API keys (AMS API)
  • Created a Universal Blockchain Explorer API (ATLAS API)
  • Created a Distributed rate-limiting system for API calls
HighloadDistributed SystemsSystem designKotlinKafkaPostgresHTML/CSS/JS
AppMetr @ Pixonic
20162019
Lead Software Engineer / Team Lead

The architecture of in-house distributed, high-load, fault-tolerant analytical system AppMetr. It handles more than 1 billion events per day, stores more than 100 Tb of data.

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HighloadDistributed SystemsJavaApache Cassandra
Chatovod
20092022
Founder

The most popular Russian chat room service.

International version: chatovod.com

Russian version: chatovod.ru

HighloadJava/KotlinMySQLHTML/CSS/JS
SkyPetr @ VS Lab
20092010
Lead Java Developer

A distributed system for collecting and analyzing publicly available information on the Internet.

JavaHTML/CSS/JS
BestPersons.ru
20072009
Founder

More than a social aggregator.

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HighloadDistributed SystemsJavaHTML/CSS/JS
City Chat / Space Doors / CD.RU
20052008
Lead Java Developer / Team Lead

A cross-platform social network.

Some insight can be found here.

HighloadDistributed SystemsJavaHTML/CSS/JSJ2MESymbian
Pushkino.info
20032005
Lead Software Engineer

Pushkino city website (pushkino.org).
Online stores (shop.pushkino.info).
Internet Club management software.

JavaPHPHTML/CSS/JS
Freelance projects
20002003

Development and sale of own software and websites.

JavaPHPVBHTML/CSS/JS