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Alexey Potakhov

Director of Engineering, Platform

New York City · [email protected] · 20+ years
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Experienced software engineer with 20+ years of expertise in designing, developing, and deploying scalable software systems. Proficient in multiple programming languages and development environments, with a strong focus on backend development, cloud computing, distributed systems, and security.

~/cv $ ls -l experience/ — 7 roles · sorted by recency

Director of Engineering, Platform

@ Meteor Mobile
New York, NY·2025 — Present current
  • Managing backend-focused developers to deliver scalable services.

Senior Director, Architecture

@ Paltalk Inc. (NASDAQ: PALT)
New York, NY·2017 — 2024 7 yrs
  • Served as principal software architect for the company.
  • Participated in all stages of the software development process.
  • Designed and developed distributed and decentralized messaging and video streaming services.
  • Built specifications and APIs; defined transmission, cryptography protocols, and security models.
  • Worked on core services doing substantial amounts of hands-on coding in C++ and Go.

Principal Software Engineer

@ SecureCo Inc. (contract)
New York, NY·2021 — 2023 2 yrs
  • Designed and implemented the specification for an end-to-end encrypted communication protocol.
  • Developed backend components for the decentralized network delivery software.

Principal Software Engineer

@ Paltalk Inc.
New York, NY·2015 — 2017 2 yrs
  • Served as a software architect and lead developer for the company.
  • Instant messaging, low-latency video streaming — terabytes of traffic, years of video processed daily.
  • Worked on backend infrastructure and DDoS mitigation for several group video chat projects.
  • Designed and developed streaming server software in C++ and Go.
  • Designed and implemented a low-level, low-latency packet filtering engine used company-wide to protect core services from substantial daily attacks.

Senior Software Engineer

@ Tomsk Inc.
Cupertino, CA·2011 — 2015 4 yrs
  • Worked on several social media and streaming applications.
  • Served as a development manager, software architect, and an individual contributor.
  • Developed software and services in C++.

Chief Technology Officer

@ Tomsksoft LLC
Tomsk, Russia·2002 — 2011 9 yrs
  • Led the development team of a medium-sized consulting company.
  • Acted as software architect and lead developer for most of the company's ventures.
  • Helped grow the company from 3 to 50+ employees in under 10 years and establish several key revenue-generating projects.

Software Engineer

@ Elecard Devices Ltd.
Tomsk, Russia·2001 — 2002 1 yr
  • Developed Elecard MPEG2 decoder frame post-processing engine using C++, x86 assembler, MMX, SSE, and SSE2.
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patent

US 11,088,996 ↗

Secure network protocol and transit system to protect communications deliverability and attribution.
education

M.S. Computer Science

Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics Tomsk, Russia · 2002 · Databases, Distributed Systems, Networking
~/cv $ tags --skills — 19 tags
Go C++ Linux MongoDB MySQL Grafana Prometheus Elasticsearch Docker CI/CD AWS Git Cryptography Onion Routing Networking Streaming DDoS Mitigation Windows Drivers Linux Modules
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