Alexander Ioffe
Founder at ExoQuery
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Ioffe is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of industry experience and a deep track record in distributed data systems, language-integrated query tooling, and functional Scala. As maintainer of the Quill framework and former solutions architect, he blends pragmatic engineering (Spark, Hadoop, SQL/NoSQL, Spring) with modern functional paradigms (Scala, ZIO, Slick, Akka) to replace brittle SQL with composable, type-safe abstractions. He has built production Big Data pipelines at scale for companies like NASDAQ and eBay and recently brought Scala 3 and ZIO-based microservices into the regulated sports betting space. A passionate open-source contributor and lifelong learner, he enjoys exploring academic research to unlock unconventional solutions and teaching peers to elevate team craft. Based in Lower Merion Township, he combines founder-level product ownership with deep hands-on implementation across backend, DSLs, and JavaScript frontends.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Economics, BA, Computer Science, Economics at Brandeis University
Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (142)
concurrent-programming10
postgresql10
compile-time10
linq10
string-interpolation10
effects10
dockerfile10
async-await10
concurrency10
async10
zio10
sql10
oracle-linux10
database10
spark10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ExoQuery/ExoQuery
Apr 2025 - Feb 2026
Language Integrated Query for Kotlin
Contributions:66 PRs, 303 pushes, 64 branches in 10 months
kotlin
ExoQuery/pprint-kotlin
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
Li Haoyi's excellent Pretty Printing library ported to Kotlin!
Contributions:5 PRs, 81 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
kotlinportedpretty-printscala
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