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# Alex Kucherenko

Senior Game Engineer · Santa Pola, Alicante, Spain

open to interesting offerstypescript by day, rust by nightblog author

## About

Senior Game Engineer at Playco. Writing software since 2007 — back when "deploy" meant FTP. Along the way there were games, web apps, backends and mobile — but the last decade has been mostly games: live-ops platforms, monetization, inventory systems, and the plumbing behind titles people actually play.

Started with PHP, survived Flash (rest in peace, you beautiful disaster), detoured through Android, iOS, Ruby and high-load backends, and went full-time gamedev in 2016.

These days it's TypeScript by day and Rust by night — a power-grid city simulator running on my own 2D engine, built "for fun", because apparently my idea of rest is writing another game engine.

These days home is Santa Pola, a small seaside town in Alicante, Spain. The code is the same — the view got a serious upgrade. Off duty: board games, electric guitar, and family.

## Tech Stack

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust (+ a long tail of PHP, Ruby, Python, C#, AS3)
Game dev: PixiJS, WebGL, Phaser, Unity3D, live-ops & monetization
Frontend: React, Preact, Three.js
Backend: Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ
Infra: AWS, Docker, Linux, CI/CD

## Experience

2020–nowPlayco — Senior Game Engineer: live-ops, payments, inventory, analytics — the plumbing that keeps games alive
2016–2020Game Closure — Game Developer: mobile games and platform features at startup speed
2015–2016ELITEX — Senior Developer: Node.js backends, Angular, and the DevOps hat
2014–2015Teempla — Senior Developer: distributed systems in four languages at once
2013–2014DataArt — Senior Developer: high-load web, 3D WebGL, Ruby on Rails
2009–2013YourWebStyle — Developer: Android, iOS, PHP, servers — the "we do everything" era
2007–2009Astra — Developer: PHP, where it all began

## git log --oneline

On GitHub since: May 2012 · 31 public repos
Language drift: PHP → AS3 → Ruby, Python → C#, Java → Objective-C → JS → TS → Rust
Most starred repo: an ExtJS 4 tree plugin from 2012 — fame is unpredictable
Most honest repo: “One of the Infinite attempts to write multiplayer top down shooter” (2016)

## Interests

game-developmentboard-gameselectric-guitarrust

## Contact

GitHub: @AlexTiTanium
LinkedIn: in/alexanderkucherenko
Email: [email protected]