Alex Lopatin
Associate Director Of Engineering
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lopatin is an Associate Director of Engineering in Los Angeles with 12 years building impactful web products and leading engineering teams, currently scaling systems at Academia.edu. A full‑stack polyglot comfortable in Python and modern JavaScript ecosystems, he has driven major frontend rewrites, interactive content frameworks, and semantic math tooling at Khan Academy that materially improved performance and developer velocity. He combines a cognitive science and computer science background with hands‑on product instincts—shipping features from payment and search systems at Getaround to teacher tools that saw rapid adoption. Known for contextual design and a traveler’s curiosity, he brings user-centered thinking to complex technical problems and a track record of turning research-informed ideas into production software.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese
Github Skills (50)
javascript10
khan-academy10
renderer10
frontend10
react10
editor9
user-interface9
eslint9
typescript9
lint9
linter9
ecmascript9
rack8
linting8
declarative8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Khan/eslint-plugin-react
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 11 days
linterreacteslintjavascripteslint-config
academia-edu/sprockets_uglifier_with_source_maps
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Create javascript source maps for your Rails applications
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
railsjavascriptrails-applicationssource-maps
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