Alexander Chernyshev

Lead Software Engineer / Architect @ Tinkoff

About

Solving problems nobody else wants. For over 20 years, I've built a career not by following a single path, but by stepping into the gaps where technology, processes, and communication break down. I am the person who gets called when a project is stuck between teams, when a legacy system needs a modern heart, when a client needs a solution that doesn't exist yet, or when a new law completely breaks a process. My journey from hardware troubleshooting and support to internal tools development, solution architecture, and presales has given me a unique 360-degree view. I don't just design systems; I understand how they break, how to fix them, and—most importantly—how to "sell" the necessary changes to both engineers and executives to make them happen. What I do best: * Turn "undone" into "delivered": Taking on complex, cross-functional challenges that lack a clear owner. * Bridge worlds: Translating between deep tech (Kubernetes, distributed systems, storage) and business needs, ensuring architecture serves real-world goals. * Build and advocate: From PoC to production, and from an idea to its adoption across teams and products (like driving the k8s migration and Data Access Layer at Tinkoff). * Start from scratch: Whether it's a new business line for Seagate in a region or a critical internal tooling at IBM. I'm driven by the belief that the most valuable problems are often the ones others avoid. Let's talk if you have one.

Country

Russia

City

Moscow Metropolitan Area

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Solution Architecture, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Leadership, SQL, Project Management, Distributed Systems, Software Development, Enterprise Architecture, Product Strategy, Unified Modeling Language (UML), C4, Fault Tolerance, Scalability, Software Observability, Business Requirements, Enterprise Storage, Enterprise Services, Enterprise Servers, Managed Services, Customer Facing Roles

Experience

Lead Software Engineer / Architect

Tinkoff

2023-11 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Moscow, Russia

* R&D tasks: market research, competitive products evaluation, applicability of technologies to product. * Architecture: proof of concepts (PoCs) for future development of product and its revamp; simplify architecture; evaluate weak points; "sell" architectural changes; k8s / containerization and architecture adjustment for that; evaluation of required resources. * Dev: mostly python * Cross-team projects * Dataworkspace project - a user-facing workspace for Data interactions and transformations (insida Data Platform; >20k internal users). Helicopter is one of DWS products - see public overview https://www.tbank.ru/career/technologies/helicopter/ Migration from distributed monolith on bare metal to k8s-first approach, including user workloads. Data Access Layer for simple, performant and secure data access, across several platforms. DWS tenantization and mapping that to actual products.

Lead Developer/Engineer

Mobius Technology

2022-8 - 2024-2 · 1 yr 7 mos

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

* Dev: Python mainly (back-end, parsing, scrapping, web SPA) * Dev & services architecture: microservices, MQ (RabbitMQ, Redis), cache (Redis), SSO (Keycloak), flows, etc. * DevOps: deploy, upkeep, troubleshooting, planning; SQL, noSQL, containers, Python, NodeJS, web apps, Keycloak SSO, KrakenD API gateway, nginx, Linux

Sales Engineer - Solution Architect (Seagate Storage Systems)

Seagate Technology

2021-7 - 2022-7 · 1 yr 1 mo

Moscow, Russia

* Starting up Seagate Systems business in CISB countries together with a sales person. Channel and direct sales. * After Feb-2022 - taking care of MEA region remotely. * Managing all the technical stuff (conferences, presales, postsales, educations, logistics, etc). * Customer and partner relationships. * Joint solutions with multiple partners from all over the world to provide real value to end customers. * Truly international team (USA, Europe, MEA, AP).

Lead Systems Automation Architect

Hitachi Vantara

2020-12 - 2021-7 · 8 mos

Moscow, Russia

Hitachi Storage Systems services in Russia and MEA region + internal tooling development. One external development project to allow a large customer to improve Hitachi systems monitoring. Several internal dev projects, including a large part in a SAN analysis project.

MVS Lead Deal & Delivery Engineer

IBM

2010-4 - 2020-11 · 10 yrs 8 mos

Moscow, Russian Federation

* In Russia - full life-cycle of multi-vendor support (MVS) for HPE hardware: pre-sales, inventory planning, post-sale remote technical support & onsite engineer. * Worldwide - member of WW MVS Center of Competence for 10 years (L2 remote technical support, development & delivery of educations). * Development, adoption & upkeep of internal tools (Node.JS, C#). * Projects promotion to senior executives. * Mentoring. IBM Intellectual Capital creator. IBM GTS innovation champion. IBM GTS service excellence award. Perfect10 NPS. Manager's choice award.

Senior Technical Consultant (RSAA)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2007-5 - 2010-4 · 3 yrs

Moscow, Russian Federation

* Proactive support and services delivery, including: heterogeneous complex environments assessments and analysis, multi-vendor systems, performance assessments, root cause analysis, prevention of issue recurrences * Corporate segment hardware and software support for Business Critical Servers (Integrity and PA-RISC servers), enterprise-level disk storage systems (MSA, VA, EVA, XP) and SAN; SLA adherence * Internal and external technical consulting * Internal team coaching * Participation in improving customer relationships, promotion of HP solutions, ensuring high level of customer satisfaction and loyalty * Driving elevations to HP Competency centers and escalations