Alex Margulis is a Principal Software Engineer based in Israel with eight years of focused experience building game backends and distributed systems. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership—moving from senior and architect roles to team lead and now principal at Glaive—bringing a proven track record of designing scalable infrastructure and CI-driven delivery pipelines. His background includes founding a boutique systems consultancy and leading architecture transformations at Optimove, showing an ability to translate complex domain needs into production-ready platforms. Comfortable across full-stack and backend domains, Alex has repeatedly tackled high-concurrency, performance-sensitive systems for finance, travel, and gaming. Colleagues would note his pragmatic blend of long-term architectural vision and day-to-day execution, plus an appetite for prototyping and introducing new technologies. He holds a bachelor's in Computer Science and Management and leverages that product-minded perspective in technical decisions.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Management, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Management at The Open University of Israel
Contributions:2 releases, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 days
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Alex Margulis - Principal Software Engineer at Glaive