Alex Tamoykin
Founder, CEO at Right Balance
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Tamoykin is a serial founder and hands-on technology leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling developer-first products and engineering teams from Los Angeles. He founded Right Balance to solve high-volume technical hiring and previously led product and engineering at startups including Commandeer (used in 120+ countries) and Shuttle Finance, bringing products from MVP to market and investor traction. A former Head of Engineering at AwesomenessTV/DreamWorks and senior engineer at ZestFinance, Alex blends deep full-stack and infrastructure experience with operational rigor—automating deployment pipelines and managing teams of 14+ developers. He teaches engineering at General Assembly, writes for Apress, and is active in the tech community as an organizer and speaker, reflecting a mission-driven focus on evolving humanity through software. Notably, he began coding in fifth grade and has sustained a polyglot, systems-level curiosity across Java, C/C++, Linux, and modern cloud tooling throughout his career.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master Telecommunications Engineering, Master Telecommunications Engineering at Volga State Academy of Water TransportCertification Computer Science, Certification Computer Science at Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Information Technology
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (162)
amazon-ecs10
python10
testing10
aws-s310
elasticsearch10
serverless10
serverless-applications10
dynamodb10
lambda10
developer-tools10
route5310
rds10
continuous-integration10
electron10
aws-cloud10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
fsproru/dotfiles
Oct 2012 - Dec 2021
Collection of UNIX configuration files.
Contributions:98 commits, 3 PRs, 80 pushes in 9 years 4 months
unix
principal-academy/fader
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 9 pushes in 2 months
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