Summary
Alex Marchenko is a Lead Full Stack Software Engineer and Architect based in San Francisco with 15+ years building high-scale consumer and enterprise platforms and a recent focus on AI-enabled systems and developer productivity. He architects and ships full-stack solutions—from Postgres-backed APIs and React/Next.js frontends to Node.js agentic LLM integrations—while improving team output by embedding AI into the SDLC. His background spans Ruby on Rails, long-standing Postgres design expertise, and earlier enterprise C#/.NET work, which gives him a rare cross-stack fluency for system design and migrations. At Zola Intelligence he built a multi-tenant AI CRM and underwriting platform from scratch, pairing agent orchestration with observability and prompt libraries. Known for mentoring and hiring, he blends hands-on implementation with process improvement and a preference for collaborative, product-driven teams. An analytical troubleshooter by trade, he quietly surfaces engineering productivity wins by automating repetitive work so teams can focus on creative problems.
9 years of coding experience