Alex Fedorov is a Berlin-based FinTech-focused CTO, founder and engineer with 15+ years of experience building and scaling startups and a background in competitive programming and machine learning. He specializes in cutting through complexity to identify and fix the single constraint that blocks growth, combining hands-on full‑stack engineering with product, finance and regulatory savvy. As former CTO of RIDE Capital he grew a FinTech platform from zero toward profitability and has led engineering teams, architecture and delivery across capital markets, trading, payments and tokenization. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as Cloud Foundry and the Crystal language—work that reflects deep backend and API expertise—and runs SCIQOS Consulting and 10x Software Engineering to help founders avoid overengineering. Alex also applies his own capital-markets trading strategy insights to design time-efficient, risk-aware financial products, and offers free strategy office hours for founders.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Master of Engineering (MEng), Machine Learning, Master of Engineering (MEng), Machine Learning at Donetsk National University
The official command line client for Cloud Foundry
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:39 commits, 22 PRs, 16 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the command-line interface (CLI) for Cloud Foundry. Their work included modifying help messages, particularly exposing the '-b' flag for the `purge-service-offering` command. They also updated tests related to service access and route binding, specifically implementing checks for targeted spaces. Additionally, they made code changes within the integration and command tests of the repository.
Contributions:38 commits, 11 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller, with a focus on service instance and binding operations. Their commits addressed issues related to service broker API compatibility, specifically around ensuring correct behavior with the Retry-After header. They also worked on enhancements to the API, such as adding the service_broker_name field to the space summary endpoint and updating documentation. Their contributions involved modifying the core models, repositories and controllers for proper function.
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Alex Fedorov - Co-Founder & CTO at SCIQOS Consulting