Alex Kotenko
Founder
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Kotenko is a founder and seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building resilient, customer-focused fintech and blockchain platforms. He co-founded Ziglu and led engineering to deliver a retail banking platform serving 40K customers, achieving 99.5% uptime and rapid month-over-month growth through weekly releases and strong platform engineering. As interim CTO at Railsr he stabilised a crisis-hit organisation, cut infrastructure waste, and prepared the team for long-term replacement, reflecting an aptitude for turnaround leadership. His background spans founding startups, tokenised finance products, and programmable blockchain infrastructure, with hands-on expertise in Golang, Kubernetes, gRPC, Postgres, Solidity and cloud-native ops. He’s equally comfortable recruiting and mentoring engineering teams as he is designing large-scale distributed ledgers and ledger subsystems that scale beyond initial scope. Based in the UK, he combines product-driven pragmatism with deep technical craftsmanship and a proven record of shipping production-grade crypto finance systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Diploma Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Computer Academy “Shag”Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Kharkiv National University of RadioelectroniсMaster's degree Business Administration and Management General, Master's degree Business Administration and Management General at National University of Pharmacy
English, Russian, Ukrainian
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Github Skills (184)
python10
ply10
docker-desktop10
ruby10
magic-numbers10
cpp10
file-extension10
media-type10
api10
obj10
mime10
go-packages10
grpc10
csharp10
objective-c10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
CryptoCredits/credits-docs
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 40 pushes in 6 months
alexykot/polyform
Jul 2024 - Jun 2025
Immutable mesh processing library
Contributions:74 pushes, 31 branches in 11 months
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