Aleksandar Petrushev is a founder and technical leader with 7 years of software engineering experience, currently co-founding and heading product and engineering at Rankz, a startup that helps Shopify brands make product pages machine-readable for AI-driven search. He has hands-on backend experience from working on the Spree eCommerce core (contributing webhook and metadata features to a top-ranked open-source platform) and a history of building production web systems across startups and agencies. Aleksandar blends applied research instincts—seen in a research internship on panel data and an MS in Cloud Computing—with practical mentoring as a former teaching assistant in computer science. He focuses on turning emerging AI search behavior into actionable tooling that improves discoverability, relevance, and conversions for merchants. Notably, his background spans both open-source contributions to a widely used eCommerce project and product engineering for multi-tenant commerce platforms.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering - Skopje
An open source eCommerce platform giving you full control and customizability. Modular and API-first. Multi-vendor, multi-tenant, multi-store, multi-currency, multi-language. Built using Ruby on Rails. Developed by @vendo-dev
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:43 reviews, 193 commits, 77 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Aleksandar primarily contributed to the development of an e-commerce platform by implementing and modifying webhook events related to product and order lifecycle changes. Their commits focused on emitting specific events like `product.discontinued`, `order.resumed`, and `variant.out_of_stock`, adding functionality to the API. The contributions included changes to models and serializers, as well as adding unit tests to verify the correct emission of the webhook events. Furthermore, they implemented features for metadata.
Contributions:11 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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