Alex Lunev
Vice President Of Engineering at LangChain
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lunev is a seasoned engineering executive based in San Francisco who has spent his career building and scaling mission-critical financial and distributed systems, now serving as Vice President of Engineering at both LangChain and Cockroach Labs. With a background that spans JPMorgan, BlackRock, Square, and Varo, he combines deep expertise in payment rails, ledgers, and bank-grade backend architecture with proven talent and hiring strategies that expanded teams from single digits to dozens. He has repeatedly driven large technical transformations—defining architecture for a nationally chartered digital bank and leading teams responsible for CockroachDB’s core platform. Known for turning high-throughput trading and settlement systems into reliable, scalable services, Alex blends hands-on engineering judgment with organizational leadership. An NYU-trained mathematician and computer scientist, he brings a quantitative mindset to designing resilient distributed systems and operational processes.
6 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at New York University
Russian
Github Skills (15)
go10
cloud-native10
cockroachdb10
distributed-database10
sql10
sql-database10
high-availability10
database10
langsmith7
key-value-database6
leveldb6
rocksdb5
documentation3
java3
langchain2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lunevalex/cockroach
May 2020 - Mar 2025
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:274 pushes, 90 branches in 4 years 11 months
cloud-nativecockroachdbsql-database
cockroachdb/cockroach
May 2020 - Sep 2022
CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.
Contributions:76 reviews, 84 commits, 91 PRs in 2 years 4 months
cloud-nativecockroachdbhigh-availabilitysql-databasego
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