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Alexander Milkov

๐Ÿ”ดHODLing

Skills

Rust10/10
Solana10/10
TypeScript9/10
Scala8/10
Kubernetes8/10
Go (8/10)MySQL (7/10)Postgres (7/10)AWS (7/10)Python (7/10)Redis (7/10)SQL (7/10)Terraform (7/10)Prometheus (7/10)Docker (7/10)Elasticsearch (7/10)Ethereum (7/10)Grafana (7/10)JavaScript (7/10)Sui (6/10)

Work Experience

Founder

Ibex Labs Ltd.

Oct 2022 โ€” Present

Boutique software consultancy focused on Solana, Rust, Typescript, backend systems, and shipping end-to-end products for small teams. Clients include Nation (DAO platform, Vellum document signing on Solana, Caro auction engine), Render Foundation (Ethereum-to-Solana migration, burn-and-mint equilibrium, token bridge), and CFI (onchain lending infrastructure for agricultural loans).

Senior Software Engineer

Square (Block)

Jul 2019 โ€” Oct 2022

Worked on Inventory and Items teams building backend services in Go managing merchant inventory and catalogs. Introduced Rust to Square by porting internal libraries. Rearchitected next generation of Items service as a generic object store backed by MySQL.

Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Comcast

Jun 2018 โ€” Dec 2018

Full stack work on isomorphic system using Scala.js + React bindings and Scala backend, enabling operators to remotely manage configuration of hundreds of thousands of networking devices.

Senior Software Engineer

The Weather Company (IBM)

Sept 2016 โ€” Jun 2019

Migrated services to EKS and established best practices for org-wide migration to IBM Cloud. Developed and maintained user profile system and alerting system in Scala. Led initiatives to adopt purely functional Scala ecosystem libraries and mentored engineers in functional programming language theory.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

MSc ยท Computer Science

2015 โ€“ 2018

Georgia Institute of Technology

BSc ยท Industrial Engineering

2011 โ€“ 2014