Alex Zhuk
CTO, Co-founder at 2501.ai
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Zhuk is a seasoned software leader and CTO/co-founder currently building 2501.ai in Berlin, Germany, blending hands-on engineering with strategic product direction in the AI space. With 11 years of experience across frontend, performance tooling, and platform development, he translates complex requirements into scalable, auditable systems. At Shopify (2022–2023) he led the Shop Infrastructure Group, unifying tooling across backends and boosting app performance by up to 70% on certain screens while reducing boot time by about 40% and shipping end-to-end tests for 40+ teams. At Klarna he managed App Performance Tooling, driving a 60% reduction in app load time and building tooling to measure performance and prevent regressions. Earlier at Omio he led UI Platform and Checkout initiatives, migrated native apps to React Native, built developer tools used by 60 engineers, and established a company-wide Frontend Chapter along with a reusable UI style guide. He holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University and is based in Berlin, renowned for turning ambitious product ideas into robust, scalable software.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University
English
Github Skills (28)
agentic-workflow8
agentic-ai6
angular5
protractor5
javascript5
testing4
selenium4
bash4
ai4
shell4
zsh4
test-framework3
webdriver3
ruler3
agentic2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zhuk-aa/test-repo
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:21 PRs, 23 pushes, 24 branches in 1 day
2501-ai/cli
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Your AI-powered autonomous agent that codes, interacts with your infrastructure and development workflows
Contributions:55 reviews, 22 PRs, 43 pushes in 4 months
agenticagentic-aiagentic-workflowaiautonomous
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