# Aleksandr Kazantsev > Engineering for engineers Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aleksandrkazantsev Over 16 year of experience in development tools, that software engineers are using in daily activities. Helping teams and companies to be more effective by boosting engineering productivity via providing essential tools and better experience. - Move Faster: Increase dev productivity, deliver features faster and fix bugs quicker. Do more with less. - Happier Devs: Unchain developers from limitations and barriers on their way. Reduce friction and frustration. - Higher Quality: Be proactive, not reactive. Diagnose and fix error wherever they spot them. Easy bug reproduction. - Craftsmanship: Write code you can be proud of, be an owner. Improve code coverage and documentation. - Deliver value with quality, performance and elegance. That said, ROI in tools is amazing as it leads to happier engineers who will deliver much faster with better quality products for customers and consumers. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer, Developer Productivity @ Snowflake Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area LI IDEA is LinkedIn's customized version of the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA IDE. LI IDEA provides LinkedIn developers with an IDE pre-configured for working with LinkedIn's code bases (Java, Python, Scala, JavaScript, etc.) and conforming to LinkedIn's coding conventions. In addition, LI IDEA includes LinkedIn proprietary plugins, which provides a number of LinkedIn development enhancements including support for directly working with LinkedIn technologies, frameworks and workflows. We develop and support internal custom language plugins for internal frameworks. LI IDEA integrates with LinkedIn's JIRA and Review Board services in order to help developers to be more productive with their day to day activities. You can perform code reviews from within LI IDEA. The full power of the IDE (i.e. conducting reviews, comments, 'ship-it' approvals, apply code patch to current project, navigation to class implementations, search, colorization) is available within the code review. Reviews in the IDE are 100% compatible and interoperable with Review Board (https://www.reviewboard.org/). ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area IDE development team. LI Idea project - LinkedIn version of IntelliJ Idea. Plugins for IntelliJ Idea to support custom LinkedIn frameworks and technologies inside IDE. Improving developer productivity across the company with better development tools support. CLI and Gradle integration through internal execution framework. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Guidewire Software Jan 2011 – Jan 2016 Guidewire platform team. - Working on IDE for Gosu language (http://gosu-lang.org/) based on IntelliJ IDEA; - Working on Guidewire Studio - internal IDE for Developers based on IntelliJ IDEA; - Gosu language support with features like error highlighting, refactoring, inspections, quick-fixes, reference resolution; - Guidewire internal UI editors for specific resources (UI for XML, WYSIWYG style editors); - Some parts of code-generation, compilers, validation. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Spirent Communications Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Sunnyvale, CA Senior Software engineer in networking and applications department. Work on iTest product (http://www.spirent.com/Solutions-Directory/iTest.aspx) as well as manage remote team up to 4 developers. iTest is powerful test-automation tool provides the necessary capabilities and multi-protocol support to accomplish simple feature testing, as well as sophisticated system and scenario testing. Work on platform infrastructure and features as well as application specific areas such as: -Spirent Test Center -Spirent Avalanche -SNMP protocol ### Senior Software Engineer @ The Fanfare Group Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 The Fanfare Group was acquired by Spirent Communications. http://fanfaresoftware.com/ I was Fanfare contractor from Xored Software in 2007-2009 and become full time employee in 2010. iTest: The System & Device Testing Solution Work in application development team. I've worked on different parts of iTest. Starting from RCP iTest product core parts to iTest user applications. iTest test script language is based on TCL language. Most useful applications interacts with real devices also via TCL language. Some applications that were developed by me: - Mail application - IqCensus application - IxLoad application - Spirent Test Center GUI application - Spirent Avalanche application - iTest licensing (FlexLm based licensing engine) ### Senior Software Engineer @ Xored Software, Inc. Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 Xored software, Inc. is an Eclipse Solutions Member company. It was set up to develop software based on Eclipse. Xored is mostly consulting/outsource company and has its own open source products. I was part of the teams working on both open source and outsource projects: 1) Q7 Xored project (now called RCPTT) (https://www.xored.com/products/rcptt/) : This is powerful GUI testing tool – more details on Xored site. 2) Fantom IDE for Eclipse - F4 (http://www.xored.com/fantom). This is IDE for Fantom (http://fantom.org/) language (Previously it was called Fan language) based on Eclipse DLTK project 3) Ruby IDE for Eclipse (Xored internal project based on DLTK): 4) Farata Systems projects ( http://www.faratasystems.com/ ): •DaoFlex •Some components of Log4Fx, DTO2Fx 5) Instantiations projects (http://instantiations.com/ was acquired by Google): SimilarCode: Part of instantiations CodePro Analyticx 6) Eclipse EPP project. Installer framework for Eclipse, It was donated to eclipse and became EPP. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco contractor from Xored software Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 I was Xored contractor for Cisco Progects (http://Cisco.com/): - Cisco Debug Console project – based on Cisco Logs and Cisco terminals; - Cisco Terminals – Components for Telnet and SSH console terminals inside eclipse; - Cisco Log SmartDiff/compare feature; - Cisco Log Analyzer. - CDS (Cisco Developer Studio) - Cisco Trade (Worksite project) ### Research Engineer @ Institute of Geophysics Russian Academy of Science Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 Research and development area, software development for Oil and Gas industry. Mathimatic modeling, Algorithms of optimization. Work on Ph.D. thesis. ### Software Engineer / Team Lead @ Unipro Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Novosibirsk, Russian Federation Leading Geopro project, software for interpretation of data of electric and electromagnetic logging, used for investigation earth for oil and gas. Technologies: Java technologies (Swing, JNI, jdbc), C++, Fortran (for math problems), Eclipse, JFace, SWT, GEF. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Schlumberger Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Internship in software engineering for Oil and Gas industry. ## Education ### Master in Computer science Novosibirsk State University (NSU) ### Work on Ph.D. thesis in Computer Science in Oil and Gas industry Institute of Geophysics Russian Academy of Science ### Physics in Mathematics Specialized Educational Scientific Center of Novosibirsk State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexkazantsev - Portfolio: http://eclipse.org/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/aleksandrkazantsev JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aleksandrkazantsev/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12