Alexandr Priezzhev is a seasoned entrepreneur and CTO with 12+ years building product-first engineering organizations and end-to-end infrastructure for startups and large loyalty platforms. He co-founded multiple ventures—including Nova Money, the world’s first AI financial planner, and My Dog in Fit—and has repeatedly turned ideas into production systems from zero to scale. Technically hands-on, he contributes to notable open-source projects like Nativefier and Reaction, with practical full-stack and mobile work (including Android React Native bridges) that improves UX and robustness. His background combines an MSU specialist degree in math/cybernetics with an MBA in innovation, enabling him to bridge deep technical design and business strategy. Rare among CTOs, he has frontline experience building high-throughput transactional systems (millions of payments per day) and shipping consumer-facing AI products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School Certificate Computer science, Secondary School Certificate Computer science at AESC MSU (СУНЦ МГУ)
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Innovations Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Innovations Management at Grenoble Ecole de Management
A React Native bridge module for interacting with Google Fit
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexandr primarily focused on refactoring and improving the React Native bridge for the Google Fit API. Their contributions addressed issues related to incorrect callback invocations within the native Android module, transitioning to an event-based communication pattern for data recording and authorization status. They also made formatting improvements and converted class methods to arrow functions, likely to avoid context issues related to 'this' keyword.
Mailchimp Open Commerce is an API-first, headless commerce platform built using Node.js, React, GraphQL. Deployed via Docker and Kubernetes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 11 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexandr contributed to various aspects of the `reactioncommerce/reaction` repository, addressing both front-end and back-end issues. Their work included fixing method hooks, updating publications, and resolving cart and payment-related issues. They also made changes to the UI, enhancing the user experience by hiding menu elements and improving the tag navigation in mobile mode. Additionally, they focused on preventing errors and improving the robustness of the application.
ecommerceapi-firstshopping-cartreact-jsshop
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