Alec Velikanov
Co-Founder & CTO at NewForm
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Velikanov is a founder and hands-on CTO with eight years of software engineering experience building startups and production systems from NYC. He has led technical teams and product delivery at multiple early-stage companies—including Pearl, 101, TextQL, and his current venture NewForm—while previously contributing to reliability and CI/CD improvements at AWS. Alec blends full-stack and infrastructure chops with a track record of shipping automation that cut build/deploy times 2–3x and reduced service latency dramatically. He’s comfortable moving between research-driven proof-of-concepts (NIST) and customer-facing products like SMS-first recruiting, and often surfaces time-saving tooling and data pipelines that scale operationally. Notably, he grew from freelance web development into repeat founder roles, showing both client-facing product sense and deep technical execution.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Winston Churchill High SchoolComputer Science Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University: Center for Talented YouthNone Computer Science, None Computer Science at University of MarylandUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (98)
instagram10
vimeo10
javascript10
twitter10
youtube10
vk10
reddit10
webapp10
social-media10
music10
metamask10
soundcloud10
tiktok9
browser9
hapi9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pearljobs/chrome-aws-lambda-layer
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 7 months
pearljobs/chrome-aws-lambda-layer-action
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 6 months
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