Alexander Budanov

About

I design systems, write code, and ship products. Over 15+ years I've built trading platforms at major financial institutions, led backend teams, and architected event-driven systems at Amazon. Currently building an AI-powered SaaS product from the ground up as a solo founder.

Skills

Experience

Founder & Lead Engineer

Apex Bridge Technology

Present

Building BugSpotter — an AI-powered bug reporting SaaS with session replay, semantic deduplication, and LLM-driven summaries. Multi-tenant, GDPR/PCI DSS compliant, 3,000+ automated tests.

apexbridge.tech github.com/apex-bridge

Team Lead / Senior Software Engineer

DeleteMe (Abine, Inc.)

Remote

Led backend team of 7-10 engineers. Reduced post-release bugs by 40%, cut API response time by 60%. Engineered CI/CD pipelines accelerating releases from bi-weekly to daily.

Senior Software Engineer

innRoad

US hospitality platform

Developed RESTful APIs and microservices for US hospitality management platform using C#/.NET Core. Implemented monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana.

System Architect

MOEX (Moscow Exchange)

Moscow, Russia

Designed system architecture for distributed trading platform at a top-25 global exchange. Distributed caching, real-time market data, event-driven messaging.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon

Toronto, Canada

Alexa microservices — event-driven architecture at scale with MSK/Kafka, Lambda, and DynamoDB. AWS infrastructure as code with CDK.

Senior Software Engineer

Volvo Group

Wroclaw, Poland

Designed enterprise software solutions for automotive systems. Key role in microservices architecture design on Azure.

Senior Software Developer → Technical Lead

Alfa-Bank

Moscow, Russia · 15 years

Built the Alfa-Direct online trading platform from the ground up using C#/.NET — order management, market data, real-time portfolio tracking, multi-protocol exchange gateways.

Availability

Writing