Alex Mironov

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States14 yrs 10 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

14 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Stripe

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 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