Alec Velikanov

Co-Founder & CTO

Newform

Dec 2023 - Current (2 years 7 months)

Head of AI / COO

TextQL

Oct 2023 - Jul 2024 (10 months)

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Co-Founder & CTO

Dec 2021 - Aug 2023 (1 year 9 months)

Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services AWS

Jan 2020 - Dec 2020 (1 year)

• Developed new feature to minimize the impact of usage spikes on AWS ELB for customers ranging from small startups to Netflix • Identified and mitigated issues from the service itself and other internal AWS services to minimize failures/latency for users by 50—90% • Took initiative to improve tooling, in the process reducing Java build and CI/CD deploy time of the team’s main application by 2-3x

Co-Founder and CTO

Pearl

Sep 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 2 months)

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Software Engineering Intern

T Rowe Price

May 2019 - Aug 2019 (4 months)

• Integrated in Agile team working in CA Rally, beating weekly story point goals and often pulling in 2-3 new stories during each sprint • Collaborated with sales teams to design and develop a tool using the MEAN stack which projects clients’ assets under management • Independently developed tool and algorithms based on internal research; bringing the project to production 3 months early

Computer Science Research Inten

National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 (3 months)

• Contributed to research on implementing new Root and Rule Natural Language Processing for academic search and autofill applications • Developed proof of concept search applications in ASP.NET, C#, and SQL that increased likelihood of a correct first page result by 40-50% • Created data collection/processing tools that decreased man-hours needed for data gathering from a few months to a few hours (100x)

MD Region 1 Vice President

DECA Inc

Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 (1 year 1 month)

DevOps Intern

The World Bank Group

Jul 2017 - Aug 2017 (2 months)

• Led a small team of summer interns in supporting the Budget and Strategic Planning team in all necessary technological fronts • Developed/redeveloped full-stack SharePoint sites to update styles and add features, while expending 5x less man hours than planned • Designed multiple custom applications in C# and Java that optimized various administrative teams’ workflows by up to 20%

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Co-Founder

Potomac River Productions

Nov 2016 - Aug 2017 (10 months)

Co-Founded this new mixed media company with a focus on the integration of video based and internet media.

Freelance Web Developer

Conscience VC

Jun 2015 - Jul 2019 (4 years 2 months)

• Established small web development business which took on dozens of projects, from basic portfolios to fully custom shop sites • Built sites with AWS EBS/EC2, CMSs like Drupal or WordPress, or created fully custom PHP or ASP.NET codebases • Managed social media and web presence for customers, leading to dramatic growth in traffic and conversions from the web

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