Alexander Ratnikov

About Alexander Ratnikov

I\'m an experienced software engineering leader with a proven record in startups, medium and large enterprises lately at Amazon in Seattle. My main strengths are in building healthy and highly productive engineering teams that deliver measurable value to the customers. Throughout my career I worked on financial products(payment systems, risk analysis, Forex); Machine Learning (ML), Deep learning, Computer vision (CV) applications in video understanding and lately on data analysis in Biotech. I have multiple years of experience working with cross-functional and remote teams.

Experience

1. Software Development Manager

   Amazon

   Jan 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I have bootstrapped a data team within Amazon Special Projects department. Team is working closely with bioinformaticians, statisticians and ML scientists on the new biotech venture within Amazon owning Big Data services and pipelines (TB and PB scale). Key achievements- grown team from 0 to 8 engineers, promoted 1 engineer L5->L6 - established team charter and processes ex: Scrumban, in-take mechanisms, ticketing/alarming/monitoring, CI/CD- consistently delivered on key business goals and proactively proposed creation of new services/solutions- proposed several funded new initiatives in the fields of knowledge discovery, agentic AI adoption

Education

• National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)

  MSc, information security

  2001 — 2007

Skills

• Jms
• Team Leadership
• Java
• Interviewing Skills
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Sql Server
• Google Adwords
• Maven
• Html5
• Xml
• Rest
• Agile Methodologies
• Agile
• Machine Learning
• Spring
• Sbt
• Tdd
• Android
• Redis
• Html
• Sql
• Linux
• Hibernate
• C#
• .net
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Docker
• Git
• Continuous Integration
• Web Development
• Agile Methodolgy
• Web Applications
• Javascript
• Apache Spark
• Postgresql
• Jboss
• Scala
• Junit