Alex Loukissas
Director Of Engineering at Fanatics
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Loukissas is a Director of Engineering and staff-level architect based in Los Angeles with over a decade of experience building scalable, low-latency distributed systems and consumer products. He has led engineering teams and product architecture across startups and enterprise firms—from founding and shipping B2C/B2B financial products to designing live shopping and auction platforms at Whatnot and cloud file services at Maginatics/EMC. Alex combines deep systems-level expertise (kernel and userspace work, WAN optimization, cloud object stores) with hands-on product delivery, having rebuilt mobile and cross-platform apps to drastically improve performance and reliability. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego and has filed patents for high-throughput live systems, reflecting a track record of inventing for scale. Comfortable switching between founding roles and director-level leadership, he’s equally focused on recruiting and mentoring engineers as on technical strategy and architecture. An uncommon throughline in his career is repeatedly taking ownership across full stacks—frontend, backend, infrastructure and even regulatory-adjacent product work in finance.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringBS, Informatics and Telecommunications, BS, Informatics and Telecommunications at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
English, Greek, German
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Github Skills (164)
google-cloud-logging10
storage-engine10
leveldb10
database10
tostring10
alpha-vantage10
plug10
middleware9
twitter9
hex9
stripe-api9
ecto9
graphql-ws9
stock9
key-value-store9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
fanatics-live/absinthe_graphql_ws
Feb 2024 - Jun 2026
Add graphql-ws websocket transport for Absinthe
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 4 months
graphql-wswebsocket
aloukissas/blog
Jan 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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