Alex Bondarevskyi is a product-focused software leader and serial founder with 13 years of hands-on engineering and 20 years of product delivery experience, currently co-founding Givespark and leading engineering at Blueacorn Tech in Austin. He has built and scaled teams and fintech products from ground-up—negotiating partnerships with MasterCard, Marqeta and others at ComCard—and repeatedly turned operational pain points into measurable gains (e.g., shaving days off accounting workflows and cutting deployment times from an hour to minutes). Technically versatile, Alex contributes to high-performance open-source projects like the RoadRunner PHP server, improving integration and HTTP handling, while also delivering backend systems in Go, Java, and cloud-native stacks. He combines entrepreneurial grit with executional rigor, having led large remote and on-site teams to deliver mission-critical systems for clients including Disney and Warner Bros. An engineer who still ships code, he pairs product instincts with low-level protocol and integration know-how that often surfaces in both commercial and open-source work.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Kyiv College of Communications
🤯 High-performance PHP application server, process manager written in Go and powered with plugins
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:16 commits, 9 PRs, 99 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the RoadRunner server's integration capabilities and fixing various issues. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to header handling, form data parsing, and variable names within the PHP client (PSR7Client). They also added features, like a default User Agent, and worked on handling HTTP/2 protocol. The user made changes to the Go code and the PHP integration code.
Contributions:3 releases, 4 pushes, 4 tags in 2 years 2 months
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