Alexander Voronkov
CTO · Engineering Leader · Full‑Stack / Backend Engineer

FamBear — CTO & Partner

CTO and partner for a caregiving marketplace matching families with vetted nannies, maids, tutors and senior-care specialists. Leads technology strategy, product development, security, rebuilding/refactoring, team management and hands-on architecture.

• Led a full security audit of the legacy PHP platform; uncovered 20+ critical vulnerabilities and convinced the founder to green-light a complete rebuild.
• Shipped a Laravel 8 + Flutter MVP in 6 months, eliminating P1 incidents and restoring customer trust.
• Built an AWS-based, Dockerised CI/CD pipeline with automated API, web and mobile tests; regression time fell from 1 day to under 2 hours.
• Scaled the active user base 20x while maintaining 99.9% uptime.
• In 2025 kicked off a second re-platform: Laravel 11, Vue 3, AI assistants, multi-currency/i18n.
• Manage an in-house team of 10 engineers across backend, frontend, mobile and QA.
• Own technical roadmap, code reviews, cloud cost governance, vendor negotiations and SEA expansion technical readiness.
• Work includes new design/refactoring, mobile app, Android/iOS, website and admin panel.

SeatOS — Development Team Lead

Bootstrapped a transport-management platform from concept to production. By 2025 SeatOS served approximately 150 operators in 5 countries and processed about 30,000 tickets per day, with peak load around 50 QPS.

• Split a PHP monolith into 16 microservices on Laravel 11 / PHP 8 with AWS Fargate, SQS/SNS and Lambda.
• Held average request latency under 120 ms at 99.9% SLA.
• Scaled the engineering organization from 3 to 12 across backend, frontend, QA and DevOps.
• Ran a two-week release train delivering 1–2 major features each sprint.
• Introduced Docker-based CI/CD (Jenkins → GitHub Actions) and Cypress test automation; regression time dropped from 24 hours to approximately 90 minutes.
• Designed a multi-tenant REST API (Eloquent ORM) and led migration of the frontend stack to React.
• Owned third-party integrations: payment, analytics and travel APIs.
• Built observability with New Relic and CloudWatch; drove FinOps reviews that capped AWS spend per ticket despite 3x traffic growth.
• Prototyped a Node.js + OpenAI chatbot for operator self-service.

Megadodo Simulation Games — Freelance Web Developer

Sole developer for the DecaGear VR headset launch site: a crowdfunding-ready platform for a VR hardware startup.

• Built the platform on WordPress/PHP with custom plugins and Elementor.
• Integrated Stripe, PayPal and crypto payments (BTC, ETH) and processed approximately 10,000 pre-orders while sustaining around 5,000 unique visitors per day.
• Developed secure owner dashboards, ticket-based support center and self-service knowledge base.
• Connected a 100k-member Discord community via OAuth and Bot API; automatic role sync unlocked backer perks and boosted engagement.
• Orchestrated marketing events inside VRChat and other social VR spaces to drive traffic and conversions.
• Set up GitHub Actions CI/CD and automated backups on AWS Lightsail / CloudFront, achieving 99.9% uptime and rapid rollbacks.
• Delivered all features end-to-end (design → code → deploy) within 14 months.

12Go Asia Pte. Ltd. — Developer, Team Lead & Product Owner

Travel-tech role progressing from developer to team lead and product owner, focused on partner APIs, transport inventory, payments, analytics and engineering process improvement.

• Built and owned the Affiliate API adopted by approximately 10,000 partner sites and OTAs, generating about 10–40% of total company GMV.
• Designed and led delivery of an Inventory Management System (“Airbnb-for-transport”) that automated approximately 25% of all routes/carriers and cut manual data-entry hours by 70%.
• Piloted SeatOS v0 in 12 months with 3 developers and 2 QA; first operator onboarded within 6 weeks.
• Migrated on-prem stack to AWS (EC2, S3, Aurora, Lambda) and introduced CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins → GitLab CI); deployment frequency improved from weekly to daily.
• Integrated multi-currency payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal, local cards) and hardened PCI compliance.
• Rolled out Datadog and BugSnag monitoring; MTTR fell by 40%, critical error rate by 35%.
• Championed Cypress QA automation, shrinking regression cycles from 16 hours to 2 hours.
• Recruited and mentored a distributed team that grew from 2 to 8 engineers, practiced Scrum, and delivered against quarterly OKRs.
• Instrumented analytics (GA4 + custom dashboards), enabling data-driven roadmap decisions and a 12% uplift in booking conversion.

Techno Bears — Chief Operations Officer

Led global expansion for web and mobile games across platforms and social networks worldwide.

• Established and maintained strategic partnerships with international platforms and social networks.
• Negotiated terms, drafted/reviewed/finalized contracts and agreements, and coordinated legal/commercial execution.
• Managed legal entities in multiple jurisdictions and handled interactions with local authorities, contractors and reporting requirements.
• Coordinated international projects and business processes across diverse markets.
• Applied risk analysis and problem-solving to navigate international expansion.

Destiny Development — Games Localization Manager / Developer

Managed localization and publishing workflows for web/mobile games across Europe, South America and Asia, combining project management, game operations and hands-on technical work.

• Project Manager for web games localization and publishing in Europe and South America.
• Handled planning/control, business trips, contract signing, localized launches, game-server administration, code modifications and local events/features.
• Combined development, product management and international coordination.
• Worked with major publishers including KongZhong.

Destiny Development Beijing Branch / 戴斯汀（北京）科技发展有限责任公司 — Chief Operating Officer

Established and operated the Beijing branch for localization of Russian web games for publishing in China.

• Managed company operations, annual reporting, HR and employee management.
• Signed local contracts, held publisher meetings and controlled the game localization process.
• Localized four games; one game was published.
• Worked on game redesign for local market specifics and handled some basic programming tasks.

Demand Control Center LLC / WiShop — Chief Technology Officer

CTO for a startup building an advertising platform inside social media posts and social apps for VK.com / OK.ru-style local networks.

• Selected technology stack for compatibility and scalability across multiple social media platforms, with focus on performance and security.
• Developed the MVP in collaboration with a designer and front-end developer.
• The launched MVP helped WiShop secure its first investment round.
• Designed application/database architecture, developed data-processing methods, managed the development team and led application launches.

Infomedia LLC — Investor / Game Designer

Designed and privately funded a social-network game project that launched successfully across local social networks.

Information Systems JSC / Information Systems LLC — Chief Technology Officer

CTO for real-time trading systems, analytics/news portals, API/integration work and cryptography-backed authentication/document-flow systems.

• Developed real-time trading systems: eOil (petroleum, crude oil, chemicals, etc.) and IDK (agricultural products).
• Built authentication systems with digital signing / cryptography.
• Delivered APIs and integrations, two trading portals, four data analytics portals, industry news feeds, corporate sales/auction systems and corporate document-flow systems.
• Integrated ERP systems and related enterprise workflows.
• Responsibilities included architecture, database administration, programming and development team management.
• Stack: PHP4/5, MS SQL, Java/Tomcat, XML/XSL, XSLT, HTML/CSS/JScript, Windows Server.

Many different places — Programmer / Technical Support / Network Administrator / IT roles

Early part-time and full-time IT work while studying at school and university.

• Started at age 13 with first commercial project: designed and developed from scratch an IT system for accounting and client records for a government youth employment center — a job-placement/labor-exchange style service for school and university students.
• Worked across about 10 companies as programmer, computer technician, network administrator, technical support and related IT roles.
• Built broad base skills and practical knowledge across many IT areas.