Alex Mironov

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14+ years in building customer-facing products.
Led teams for large-scale data processing at Booking.com.
Focused on enhancing developer experience at Stripe.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend and Infrastructure Engineer in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsSoftware InfrastructureData StreamingBackend Development

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Apache FlinkApache KafkaConfluentContinuous IntegrationGitGraphiteJSONJavaLinuxMemcachedMongoDBMySQLNoSQLOOP

About

With 14+ years in the industry, I specialize in building and scaling customer-facing products, large-scale web services, and high-availability distributed systems. I've led multiple engineering and SRE teams, previously overseeing massive real-time data processing at Booking.com. Currently, I'm focused on enhancing the developer experience at Stripe, optimizing our engineering workflows, and ensuring seamless platform reliability.

Experience

Stripe

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Keeping Stripe Compute & Cloud infrastructure reliable and efficient.

Technical Staff ManagementDistributed SystemsSoftware InfrastructureAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Staff Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Making sure that Stripes have the most delightful and productive developer experience of their career by providing them with the best-in-class internal tooling & infrastructure.

Technical Staff ManagementSoftware InfrastructureData StreamingAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Booking.com

2 roles

Lead Developer

Promoted

Jul 2017 – Aug 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Led several teams of SREs and infrastructure engineers responsible for design, development and support of a large-scale (5M+ msgs/sec) multi-regional data streaming infrastructure with rock-solid delivery and latency SLOs. Streaming platform powers-up critical business use-cases like ordering & payment systems, customer 360, realtime threat detection, A/B testing and others.

Data StreamingApache KafkaApache FlinkTerraformConfluentLinux+3

Senior Backend Developer

May 2014 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

Led a team of engineers and designers to launch the mobile version of Booking.com and optimize its checkout funnel for a seamless mobile experience.

JavaPHPPostgreSQLGraphiteRESTJSON+2

Lingualeo

Backend Developer

Sep 2013 – May 2014 · 8 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

Developed marketing and localization platforms to prepare for eventual multi-country product launches.

Backend DevelopmentNoSQLGit

2gis

Backend Developer

Jul 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation

Developed a robust RESTful backend from the ground up for flamp.ru, powering up user experience across web and mobile platforms. Setup the early observability & alerting platforms. Introduced CI/CD to allow for daily product releases.

RESTContinuous IntegrationTest Driven DevelopmentBackend Development