AlexV

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

🤓 Distributed Nerd for 20+ years, building software that keeps running while its parts come and go.

Now

• OpenWISP: keeping fleets of Linux and OpenWrt devices in line (Python, Django); contributor and GSoC 2026 mentor (2025-now)
  • recent work: 5G signal data, API for non-superusers, admin subnet restrictions, migration integrity tests
• tdd-context-split: a skill for AI coding agents doing test-first development, where the test author and the implementer share only the spec (2026)

Contributions

• speedtest-rust: SVG mime type support, with tests (2026)
• ROS: package maintainer, 300+ merged release PRs (2017-2019)
• Smaller fixes to freqtrade, berty, y-webrtc, ESA OpenGEODE and Actyx (2019-2024)

Experiments (2019-2024)

Functional design of long-lived distributed systems

• measurements.ex: real-world measurements in Elixir, published on hex.pm (2023)
• relations.ex, surefire.ex, hopful.ex: relations with derived property tests, cost-aware betting games, bimonadic collections (2023-2024)

Crypto exchange clients and trading bots

• xest: overview of your assets across crypto exchanges, in Elixir (2021-2022)
• aiobinance, aiokraken: asyncio Python clients for Binance and Kraken, with an early trading bot on top (2019-2021)

Persistent virtual worlds

• life-net: Conway’s Game of Life engine in Rust; multiplayer and resources are next ideas (2024)

Past Work (2003-2023)

Consulting and R&D (2017-2023): distributed software architecture, tools R&D; missions for Hadean (Ansible, Terraform, C++, Nix, Rust) and Plex (Conan, CMake, C++), among others

Yujin Robot, senior software developer (2015-2017, Korea): REST micro-service architecture for multi-robot ROS management; shipped GoCart, autonomous indoor transportation; built the Pyros framework, dynamic Python over ROS, released as ROS packages (rostful, pyros)

GamePark Studio, co-founder, senior developer (2014-2015, Korea): game-dev pipeline and full-stack development; shipped Dragonfall Tactics

AnB Games, senior developer (2013-2014): development on Crimson Heart Online

Gameloft, lead developer (2012-2013, Korea / New Zealand): shipped My Little Pony, Wonder Zoo, Green Farm 2

Bigpoint, lead developer (2010-2011, Germany): shipped ToonRacer (Unity3D client, C++ backend)

Interzone, senior Linux server engineer (2008-2009, Australia / Brazil): C++ physics and deployment for a BigWorld MMO, 3 clusters of 20 game servers

Thales (2006-2007, France): cross-platform software integration, Linux and Windows GUIs, interoperability over the network

Right Hemisphere (2005-2006, New Zealand): Deep Server suite for 3D software

EADS CCR / ONERA, research associate (2003-2004, France): real-time 3D visualization for an HLA distributed simulation platform