Alex Yakunin
Founder at Actual Chat
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Yakunin is a founder and seasoned technology leader with 21 years of experience building scalable, real-time systems and leading engineering during hyper-growth. As the founder of Actual Chat he blends real-time audio, live transcription, and AI assistance to make conversations feel seamless between asynchronous and synchronous modes. Previously the first CTO at ServiceTitan, he led engineering through rapid expansion and created the open-source Stl.Fusion library that enables highly efficient real-time apps via a unique Distributed REActive Memoization abstraction. His background spans infrastructure and performance engineering at Quora and multiple founding/CEO roles, reflecting deep hands-on backend expertise and product instincts. Based in California, he pairs theoretical physics training with pragmatic engineering, often solving hard problems around caching, reactivity, and offline interactivity that most teams avoid.
21 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master (incomplete) Theoretical Physics, Master (incomplete) Theoretical Physics at Ural State University
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
6,460reputation
475kreached
76answers
24questions
orm
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generics
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Github Skills (18)
caching10
asp-net-core10
blazor10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
blazor-server10
apidoc9
websocket9
api9
orm9
generics9
entity-framework8
nhibernate6
documentation6
sql-server6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
servicetitan/Stl.Fusion
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Build real-time apps (Blazor included) with less than 1% of extra code responsible for real-time updates. Host 10-1000x faster APIs relying on transparent and nearly 100% consistent caching. We call it DREAM, or Distributed REActive Memoization, and it's here to turn real-time on!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 1845 commits, 470 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits indicate a focus on implementing features and fixing bugs within the Blazor-based real-time application framework. The user added a SimpleTodoService and updated UI project references for the Blazorise template. They also introduced improvements to internal services like KeyValueStore, including support for sandboxed access and code refactoring. The changes also indicate the user worked on the creation of APIs.
realtimeblazor-serverblazor-appscaching-libraryreactive
alexyakunin/YetAnotherStupidBenchmark
May 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:44 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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