Alex Megalokonomos
Lead Frontend Engineer at All In Bits
Athens Metropolitan Area Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Megalokonomos is a Lead Frontend Engineer with over two decades of software experience and a decade focused on blockchain, currently shaping the frontend and TypeScript ecosystem at All in Bits, the founding company behind Cosmos and Tendermint. He architected the TypeScript client codegen for the popular Ignite CLI and has led frontend work on Emeris, AtomOne, GovGen and production multi-chain wallets and relayers, blending deep protocol knowledge (Cosmos SDK, IBC, Tendermint) with pragmatic client library design. Comfortable across TypeScript, Vue 3, Go and Rust, he builds developer-facing tooling—client libraries, protobuf pipelines, GraphQL indexers—that bridge complex blockchain primitives to usable apps. Previously a creative digital-advertising leader, he scaled teams and shipped award-winning campaigns for global brands, a background that shows in his product-focused engineering and UX sensitivity. An active open-source contributor and elected BitShares committee member, he brings both governance experience and production-grade relayer/indexer implementations to cross-chain interoperability efforts. Outside work he’s a lifelong LEGO builder and relentlessly curious engineer who pairs systems thinking with hands-on coding.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Information Systems Engineering, MEng, Information Systems Engineering at Imperial College LondonApolytirion, Apolytirion at Hellenic American Educational Foundation Athens College - Psychico CollegeMA, Audio Production, MA, Audio Production at University of Westminster
English, Greek, French
Github Skills (15)
typescript-types10
tendermint10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
vue10
vue-jsx10
cli10
react9
npm9
cosmos-sdk9
blockchain8
go7
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ignite/cli
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Ignite is a CLI tool and hub designed for constructing Proof of Stake Blockchains rooted in Cosmos-SDK
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:110 reviews, 29 commits, 49 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed significantly to the Ignite CLI project, primarily focusing on front-end enhancements and template updates related to the Vue.js framework. They refactored templates, optimized JS code, upgraded the tendermint/vue version, and integrated React hooks. The user also implemented changes to the build process, including integrating npm 7 and updating the Dockerfile. Additionally, they made adjustments to the generated REST client and the nodetime STA tool.
cliignite-cliblockchain-platformethereumcosmos-sdk
EmerisHQ/demeris
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Emeris web app
Contributions:1 review, 540 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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