Alexey Kalinichenko is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO with over 10 years of experience building scalable payments, real-time collaboration, and communications systems. He has led architecture and teams at Square and Token and co-founded Step Mobile to rethink banking for teens, bringing product-focused technical leadership to fintech. His hands-on background spans core infrastructure—ISO 8583 integrations, reverse HTTP proxy architectures, and lock/routing services for Google Docs—plus VoIP, SIP stacks, and networking at Google and Microsoft. Comfortable switching between deep implementation and high-level strategy, he’s known for simplifying complex integrations and scaling critical services during periods of rapid growth. Based in San Francisco, he pairs academic training in computer engineering with a pragmatic bent for fault-tolerant, low-latency systems and side projects in basic machine learning.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Engineering, Masters Computer Engineering at Syracuse University
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Alexey Kalinichenko - Co-Founder And CTO at Step Mobile