Alex Barkan
Co-Founder at Zensets
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlex Barkan is a polyglot staff software engineer and director of engineering based in New York with 12 years of experience building backends, frontends, desktop apps, and game engines. At fuboTV he progressed from senior engineer and technical lead to Director of Engineering, blending hands-on development with people and organizational leadership. He has startup DNA as a two-time founding engineer and a background in real-time graphics and game development from roles at NBCUniversal and Vectorform. Alex is comfortable spanning full-stack systems and performance-sensitive graphics work, and he brings practical product instincts from both consumer streaming and early-stage ventures. Collected across diverse codebases, his work shows a knack for shipping complex, real-time features at scale while mentoring engineering teams.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Brooklyn College
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (68)
postgresql10
stream-processing10
streaming10
ai-agent10
sql10
rust10
database10
cdc10
mysql10
kafka10
data-mesh10
sql-server10
streaming-data10
datalayer10
golang9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
halfvector/nes-2015
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
NES emulator in C++
Contributions:73 commits, 8 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 4 months
cppnes-emulator
halfvector/quips-python
Mar 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:10 commits, 41 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.