Summary
Alex Poliakov is a pragmatic technology leader with 11 years of experience bridging deep database internals and customer-facing solutions, currently leading Customer Solutions at DBOS to help teams build crash-proof applications. He began his career in DBMS engineering—designing query optimization, storage formats, and workload management—before founding and growing customer solutions teams that drove multimillion-dollar engagements in biotech and pharma. Alex combines hands-on engineering (including contributions to SciDB engine internals) with presales, post-sales, and prototype delivery, often stepping into code to unblock customers. Known for translating complex distributed database problems into usable products, he also has a track record applying ML for continuous visual tracking in retail settings, showing a knack for interdisciplinary solutions. Based in Boston, he pairs an MIT CS degree with a rare mix of low-level systems expertise and customer empathy.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, B.S. Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Russian, English