Alexey Potakhov
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlexey Potakhov is a Director of Engineering focused on platform and backend systems with two decades of software engineering experience and a decade in senior technical leadership roles. He has deep hands-on expertise in C++ and Go, having designed high-throughput messaging and low-latency video streaming services that process terabytes daily and a custom packet-filtering engine used for company-wide DDoS mitigation. Alexey blends systems architecture, cryptography-aware protocol design, and cloud-native deployment practices, having specified end-to-end encrypted communication protocols and built decentralized delivery components. He has a track record of growing teams and organizations—from leading a consulting firm’s expansion to managing backend-focused engineers at Meteor Mobile—while remaining a principal contributor to core services. Based in New York with an academic background in computer science, he brings a rare combination of low-level performance tuning and strategic platform leadership.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
golog9
vlan9
juniper9
nfv8
ospf7
freebsd7
dpdk7
bgp7
python6
usb2
firmware2
avr1
atmel1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
potakhov/cache
Jun 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
potakhov/loge
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
Simple drop-in logger extension library for the standard Go log package
Contributions:9 releases, 35 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
golog
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