Alexander Goldstein is a founder and tech-driven investor with 16 years of experience building and scaling companies across fintech, energy, and real estate. He co-founded CashNetUSA (now Enova), where as CTO/CIO he led technology through a successful exit, and has since focused on data-driven retail energy with Eligo Energy—now serving as Executive Chairman—and on infrastructure investments as a founding board member of TerraFlow Energy. Trained as a computer engineer, he blends hands-on engineering and open-source maintenance experience (notably contributing to Emacs elisp package management) with strategic operating roles that span company formation, finance, and product. Based in Miami, he favors pragmatic, measurable solutions for energy and housing markets and has a record of turning early-stage ideas into repeatable businesses and investor returns.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Niles North High School
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:
Developer/Maintainer of Elisp packages
Contributions:16 commits, 18 PRs, 10 comments in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributes to the `el-get` repository by updating recipes for various Emacs Lisp packages. Their work involves fixing broken dependencies, updating package URLs, and adapting recipes to changes in the underlying packages. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of Emacs package management and maintaining dependencies within the `el-get` ecosystem, which improves the overall function of the repository. Their commits directly improve the availability and usability of various elisp packages.
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Contributions:15 pushes, 32 branches in 6 years 9 months
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Alexander Goldstein - Founding Board Member at Eligo Energy, LLC