Alex Danilychev
Engineering Manager at DoorDash
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Danilychev is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems and ML infrastructure, currently managing Ads Delivery Platform at DoorDash in SF/NY. He has led backend, data and blockchain indexing teams—most recently driving Solana trading backend and API performance at Magic Eden and foundational Marketplace and Eats ranking systems at Uber. Alex combines product-first instincts from startups (co-founding LoanCru and early roles at CloudKitchens and Keewi) with proven execution at scale, rebuilding critical data layers and services under production constraints. He hires and mentors backend and ML engineers, translating research-grade models into reliable auction and ranking pipelines. Comfortable across systems, databases, APIs and smart contracts, he brings a pragmatic mix of technical depth and product ownership that accelerates revenue-driving features. An oft-overlooked strength is his track record of executing full-stack rebuilds that materially improve latency and reliability in high-volume marketplaces.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science CET Entreprenurship and Technology Certification, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science CET Entreprenurship and Technology Certification at University of California, Berkeley
Russian, Spanish
Github Skills (45)
sqlite10
query-builder10
sql-server10
nodejs10
mongodb10
mysql9
mariadb9
postgresql9
prisma9
cockroachdb9
sql-query9
javascript9
typescript9
databases9
mssql9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ADanilychevJr/cs9c-hw4
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:140 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
ADanilychevJr/FinalProj133
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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