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Alec Velikanov

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Co-Founder & CTO
New York, United States

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  • Newform
    Co-Founder & CTO
    Newform
    Dec 2023 - Current (2 years 10 months)
  • TextQL
    Head of AI / COO
    TextQL
    Oct 2023 - Jul 2024 (10 months)
  • C
    Co-Founder & CTO
    Dec 2021 - Aug 2023 (1 year 9 months)
  • Amazon Web Services AWS
    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
  • Pearl
    Co-Founder and CTO
    Pearl
    Sep 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 2 months)
    Pearl is a personal recruiter in your pocket. Our team will send you hyper-personalized job recommendations via SMS. Apply to jobs instantly with a single reply. It's fast, it's simple, and it's more effective. Stop wasting your time scrolling endlessly through job listings - let Pearl do the work for you! www.trypearl.io
  • T Rowe Price
    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
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST
    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)
  • DECA Inc
    MD Region 1 Vice President
    DECA Inc
    Feb 2018 - Feb 2019 (1 year 1 month)
  • The World Bank Group
    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%
  • P
    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.
  • Conscience VC
    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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  • University of Maryland
    None, Computer Science
    University of Maryland
  • UCLA
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
    UCLA
  • Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth
    Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
    Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth
    2X Award of High Honors
    2015: Fundamentals Of Computer Science
    2016: Electrical Engineering
  • Winston Churchill High School
    High School Diploma
    Winston Churchill High School
    Studied United States, World, and European History, as well as, US and Comparative Government on the AP level. Mathematics including BC Calculus, Multivariable Calculus, and Differential Equations. Science completed included Chemistry, Biology and all AP Physics. Participated in Wind Ensemble playing the Baritone Saxophone.
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