Alex Kowalczuk
Staff Software Engineer at AlphaSense
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kowalczuk is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience building full-stack, production-grade systems and leading cross-functional teams. He led Tegus’ Search and Generative Experiences teams to ship the company’s first ML/LLM products—most notably AskTegus, which surfaces insights from 100K+ expert transcripts—and then helped integrate those capabilities into AlphaSense after a major acquisition. Comfortable across frontend and backend domains, Alex excels at translating product and design goals into pragmatic, high-impact implementations while managing scope and technical debt. He’s skilled at designing API patterns and onboarding distributed teams, having facilitated knowledge transfer between overseas and acquisitions teams during platform unification. Colleagues rely on him for both technical leadership and clear technical communication, from tech talks to augmented internal documentation. An engineer who pairs curiosity about emerging AI/ML capabilities with a disciplined approach to sustainable architecture, he favors solutions that scale beyond the initial launch.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Northwestern University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (46)
starlark10
vscode-snippets9
context-menu9
menu9
golang9
typescript8
ruby8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
rubocop8
microsoft7
electron7
testing7
visual-studio-code7
nodejs7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akowalz/platebot
Apr 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:55 pushes, 5 branches, 3 tags in 4 years
akowalz/dotfiles
Jul 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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