Alexey Shcherbak
@centur
Staff/Principal-level engineering leader with deep experience designing, building, and evolving secure, reliable, and scalable software platforms.
What I'm looking for
I’m an experienced engineer with 20+ years across roles and industries, building and leading distributed systems, product platforms, and cloud-focused initiatives. I own platform evolution end-to-end—from architecture and delivery through to ongoing reliability, security, and maintainability—grounded in strong systems thinking and a business-oriented mindset.
Recently, I led staff-level work across customer on-boarding, identity architecture, workflow orchestration, security compliance, and enterprise platform delivery. I’ve designed and implemented custom SSO flows, strengthened ISO 27001 certification readiness by supporting technical controls, and built Temporal.io-based integrations to improve orchestration reliability and visibility across distributed processes.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Company Owner
Sharp Ops Pty Ltd
Feb 2019 - May 2026 (7 years 3 months)
Company Owner at Sharp Ops Pty Ltd.
Provided Staff-level technical leadership across customer on-boarding, identity architecture, workflow orchestration, security compliance, and platform delivery.
Led multiple enterprise customer on-boarding projects, owning technical discovery, solution design, specification, feasibility assessment, and implementation planning.
Resolved long-running SSO and identity integration issues, improving
Led the design and delivery of a highly available integrations marketplace MVP, expanding the core product offering with managed container-based integrations and configurable customer-specific deployment settings.
Owned key architecture decisions across the platform, balancing MVP delivery speed with reliability, scalability, operational supportability, and long-term product extensibility.
Maint
Senior Software Developer at Socotra.
Designed the framework for the company’s long-term Infrastructure-as-Code practice after assessing existing infrastructure, deployment, and operational processes.
Defined and documented the technical platform requirements for entering new markets, translating business expansion goals into actionable infrastructure and delivery capabilities.
Led the re-architecture of the infrastructure platform
Led the design and implementation of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices for AWS services, strengthening deployment consistency, environment reliability, and operational control.
Owned identity, SSO, and third-party service-provider integrations across the company platform and ISO IT compliance scope.
Played a key role in platform architecture and design decisions, contributing from earl
Designed and implemented secure and resilient Azure architectures for business-critical platforms with strict confidentiality and reliability requirements.
Led incident investigations, recovery efforts, and postmortem analysis for software and infrastructure outages, helping improve operational practices and reduce recurrence risk.
Provided internal technical guidance on application security, Az
Led the development of a highly available, distributed, event-sourced platform using Microsoft Orleans on Azure for an AEC industry collaboration product.
Delivered platform from concept to MVP in 12 months, enabling the initial product launch and achieving strong customer feedback on product quality.
Built CI/CD pipelines for the project, allowing the team to deploy to production multiple times
As a Development Consultant, I was taking part in various projects for company's clients. Depending on the project, I can perform different roles and usually my role is a mix of the following:
* Full-stack developer - implementing required functionality using wide range of modern libraries and technologies from Knockout.js \ Bootstrap to ASP.NET MVC \ Web API frameworks, various back-end systems
Led a team of three developers delivering ABBYY FineReader Online, a cloud-based OCR service for small businesses and individual users.
Designed and implemented the FineReader Online API and backend processing services, including integration with the OCR engine and external authentication providers such as Facebook, Google, and LiveID.
Redesigned the service architecture for cloud deployment and
Led a team delivering ABBYY FineReader Online, including design and implementation of the FineReader Online API and backend processing services.
Finereader Internet Development Group
Education
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National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
Post-graduate, Information Technologies
2004 - 2007
Completed post-graduate studies in information technologies at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI from 2004 to 2007.
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI
Specialist, Information Security
1998 - 2004
Earned a Specialist degree in information security at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI from 1998 to 2004.
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