Alex Roussos
Director Of Engineering at Even Financial
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Roussos is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling backend platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering at Even Financial in New York. He combines hands-on backend work with strong process design—optimizing team workflows, adopting lean/Kanban practices, and driving iterative delivery to shorten time-to-production. Alex has deep Java and cloud experience (AWS, Docker, Mesos) and a track record modernizing large e-commerce and consumer platforms at Barnes & Noble and Knewton. He emphasizes developer productivity—reducing alert noise, improving test reliability, and introducing centralized configuration and monitoring to speed debugging. Known for mentoring engineers and aligning product, UX, and data teams, he balances technical stewardship with people development. Early-career work on embedded systems and robotics reflects a broad engineering curiosity that informs pragmatic system design.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science and Engineering, BA, Computer Science and Engineering at Dartmouth College
English
Stackoverflow
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162kreached
91answers
4questions
amazon-web-services
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Github Skills (51)
kotlin10
maven-plugin10
kotlin-library10
intellij-plugin10
gradle-plugin10
programming-language9
amazon-web-services9
webassembly9
compiler8
travis-ci8
sendgrid8
jvm7
reactive7
java7
scala7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexroussos/dropwizard-heroku-example
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
herokudeploy-to-herokudropwizardmodified
alexroussos/Mosaic
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
Mosaic generator with k-means color palette
Contributions:27 commits in 5 days
k-meansmosaicpalettemeanscolor-palette
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