Alexander Abdugafarov
Sr. Software Engineer at Nethermind
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Top SchoolAlexander Abdugafarov is a senior software engineer with 11+ years of professional experience building and optimizing database-backed, distributed systems. He has deep expertise in algorithms, data structures, OOP/FP, database internals and consensus, and has driven features like YugabyteDB’s YSQL integration, online upgrade framework, and sharded tablegroups. Recently at Nethermind he’s focused on Rust-based web3 work across polynomial commitments, data availability sampling, post-quantum crypto and zkVM execution. An active contributor to the well-regarded Jepsen project, he’s improved YugabyteDB’s Jepsen tests and hardened YSQL client tooling—showing a practical knack for verification and fault injection. Fast at learning and comfortable with complex, concurrent problems, he excels when given challenging technical puzzles and a small team to iterate with.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, General, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, General at Tashkent University of Information Technologies
Русский, English
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Github Skills (30)
postgresql10
clojure-cli10
testing10
test-framework10
indexing10
clojure10
indices10
indexer10
sql10
database-design10
yugabytedb10
indexof10
eclipse-plugin9
c-language9
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jepsen-io/jepsen
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
A framework for distributed systems verification, with fault injection
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the YugabyteDB Jepsen test framework, enhancing its capabilities for distributed systems verification. Their work included implementing YSQL client and bank tests, adopting existing YCQL tests, and refactoring the YSQL framework with a `defclient` macro for streamlined client definitions. They also focused on improving exception handling and adding operation metadata, improving the overall robustness and clarity of the testing process. Furthermore, the user made changes to stop the postgres process as a part of the DB teardown and removed outdated code related to the enterprise version.
distributed-systemsfault-injection
frozenspider/torrent-updates-checker
Dec 2017 - Dec 2025
Automatic torrent updates checker.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 51 pushes in 8 years 1 month
torrentsupdatestorrentchecker
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