About me
Education, work, languages and contacts
My name is Alexander, and I am a technical writer. I write documentation for software products and hardware and work in the Docs as Code approach: texts live in Git, and portals are built and published automatically.
I use my development knowledge in the profession: for my thesis project I built a service that checks English-language documentation using neural networks. I also draw diagrams and sometimes write interface text.
More photos coming later.
Education and work
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Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Faculty of Information Technology and Big Data Analysis, program “Applied Informatics”.
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National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University)
Faculty of Computer Science, program “Systems and Software Engineering”. For my thesis project I developed a service that checks English-language documentation using neural networks.
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Financial University
- Took part in developing a system that automatically processes applications to an admissions committee. Together with the team I reduced the processing time from several days to several hours.
- Wrote the user guide and onboarding documentation for employees.
- Tested the system and worked on extending its functionality and on UX texts.
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Baikal Electronics
- Developed documentation for the hardware and software side of the Baikal-T, Baikal-M and Baikal-S processors.
- Developed an AI agent for support: it generates answers from the company's internal documents and handles 60% of requests without staff involvement.
- Translated documentation from Russian into English for international partners.
- Introduced a knowledge management system in the Docs as Code approach.
- Regularly took part in documentation peer reviews.
- Created a set of 50+ components for formatting diagrams and schematics.
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T1 Holding, Innotech
- Created technical documentation from scratch for Mapius, an API management platform.
- Introduced a knowledge management system in the Docs as Code approach on GitLab CI, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Built and standardized documentation processes in an Agile environment.
- Co-authored a tool that lets teams launch documentation portals on their own, without DevOps engineers or technical writers.
- Prepared a documentation package for commercializing the platform and a set of documents for registration in the Russian software registry.
- Created a documentation style guide.
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UX texts and diagrams
- At Financial University I worked on the UX texts of the system.
- At Baikal Electronics I created a set of 50+ components for diagrams and schematics.
- At T1 Innotech I created a documentation style guide.
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Competition projects
I took part in hackathons and case championships run by Alfa-Bank, VK, T-Bank, VkusVill, VTB and KROK. I solved tasks at the intersection of technology, analytics and UX.
- 2024, Alfa-Bank and VK: the “Banking in messengers” case championship. Developed a strategy to improve P2P transfers for Alfa-Bank and VK Messenger.
- 2022, T-Bank: finalist of the Tinkoff Case Day case championship. Developed a strategy to improve the company’s products (Education, VoiceKit).
- 2022, VkusVill: an anti-hackathon. Worked with a large volume of data and tested hypotheses in logistics.
- 2021, VTB: the MORE.Tech 3.0 hackathon. Built and tested hypotheses for VTB Investments, ran UX research and took part in building an Android MVP.
- 2021, KROK: the WildHack hackathon. Ran UX research and took part in building an Android MVP.
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Database Foundations
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Cloud Services Engineer
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Agile for Development Teams
Languages
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Russian
native
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English
C1 · IELTS 7.5, 2025*
- A1
- A2
- B1
- B2
- C1
- C2
I translate technical documentation from Russian into English and back.
* The IELTS exam is administered by the British Council, IDP Education and Cambridge Assessment English. The British Council is designated an undesirable organization in Russia.
Known limitations
In documentation, this is the name for what a program cannot do yet. I will write about myself too.
Design is not my main profession: I have less experience in visual design than in documentation. I catch up by practicing on my own projects.
My English is at the C1 level, but I am not a native speaker. Texts for international publication are better shown to a native speaker.
Outside work
I take photographs, mostly on film. My pictures are on Unsplash.
I ride a bike and do 3D printing.