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Alexander Kiselev

Software Engineer

About Me

A product minded Software Engineer with a deep focus on bridging the gap between stakeholders and the technical solutions. With a background in FinTech and Aerospace, I am passionate about large-scale, business-critical systems.

Experience

July 2024 - Present
Embed B.V. (PSP for Platforms)

Product Engineer

  • Identified opportunity to offer POS terminals without entering the processing flow by leveraging our acquirer’s existing gateway. Designed and implemented the integration, coordinating directly with terminal partner and the acquirer. Delivered the MVP in under 2 months — now driving 37% of total processed volume and doubling company revenue.
  • Partnered weekly with the Head of Finance to bridge business and engineering goals. Deepened domain understanding of our PostgreSQL-based bookkeeping system, enhancing it to support complex reconciliation and pricing analysis. Authored bespoke SQL queries, including six in continuous use, enabling year-end fund closure and margin optimization across pricing models.
  • Led technical scoping, design, and execution of integrations with vendors such as Deutsche Bank and key clients, together processing €1M+ in monthly volume. Managed inter-company communication and implementation, delivering lean, extensible MVPs that accelerated go-live timelines and scaled core transaction flows.
Nov 2022 - June 2024
Appjection B.V. (legaltech)

Software Engineer

  • Spearheaded the use of IaC and automated CI/CD practices within the company, creating pipelines and provisioning infrastructure through Terraform for NestJS applications, enabling daily production releases.
  • Developed robust public APIs and internal automation solutions with NestJS microservices.
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023, Sep 2023 - Nov 2023
TU Delft (Interactive Environments Minor)

Lead (Embedded) Software Engineer

  • Initially presented a group project - M.I.K.E. at Highlight Delft, then enhanced and showcased it at Dutch Design Week, implementing an object detection program in C++and a Rust LED controller.
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
TU Delft (Aerospace Honours Research Project)

ML Researcher

  • Led an experiment involving 10 human participants, creating a cleaned, processed, and labeled dataset for further research in Python.
  • Implemented and trained a time series neural network classifier in Python, drawing on academic literature to analyze its performance and explore potential applications. Documented results in a draft paper.
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
SnapSwap S.A. (fintech)

Junior Risk Analyst

  • Performed 200 credit risk checks on new and existing customers and created 12 quarterly reports, automating the process with AppScript.

Technologies

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • DynamoDB
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • CDK
  • K8s

Skills

  • Cloud Operations
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Project & Integration Management
  • Stakeholder communications

Projects

Aircraft design simulation optimization

Tool for calculating preliminary design parameters of a sea-faring trans-atlantic aircraft in Python. Thesis project.

Education

  • BSc Aerospace Engineering (8.5 GPA)
    Honours Program
    TU Delft
    2019 - 2022

Languages

  • English - Native
  • Dutch - B1
  • French - A2