Alex Piatski
Product at Perplexity
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Piatski is a product leader with 11 years of engineering and product experience, specializing in consumer payments and payments infrastructure. Based in New York, he has led launch and growth of end-to-end payments systems at Instacart—covering card processing, alternative wallets, directed spend programs like EBT and FSA/HSA, and internal reconciliation and fraud controls—while operating in hybrid individual contributor and manager roles. He transitioned from software engineering at Redfin to product roles at Grammarly and Instacart, bringing a rare blend of hands-on technical fluency and product strategy informed by a Computer Science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Known for optimizing authorization, routing, and cost at scale, Alex now applies that payments expertise to broader product challenges at Perplexity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, English, Russian
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Github Skills (4)
python4
java4
internet4
monitor3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apiatski/alexa-mac-automation
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
apiatski/2015-project-starter-code
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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