Summary
Alex Shpurov is a hands-on CTO and senior engineering leader with 30+ years building low-latency, high-throughput fintech systems and production AI platforms across tier-1 banks and startups. He blends deep backend, cloud, DevOps, and cryptography expertise—shipping secure, compliant systems on AWS/Azure/GCP and OpenShift using Java, Scala, Go, Rust, Python and C++. Recently focused on enterprise generative AI, RAG, agentic systems and encrypted AI, he architects LLM gateways, vector indexes and multi-agent pipelines with strong AI governance and operational rigor. A long-time pioneer in privacy-preserving crypto, he has led FHE, ZK and post-quantum prototypes for banking, founded FHE-Studio, and holds 14 US patents across AI and cryptography. He excels at taking research-grade crypto and AI into production for regulated environments, including on-prem→cloud migrations and zero-trust designs. Based in Toronto, he combines practical implementation muscle with a rare mix of trading, payments, blockchain and applied cryptography experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at University of Toronto
Spanish, Russian, French