velocityzen
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlexey Novikov is a founding engineer and seasoned technologist with 13 years of experience building product-focused engineering environments that remove obstacles from idea to execution. Based in New York, he blends hands-on development, UX sensibility from his years at Reaktor, and leadership experience across startups and consultancy to make execution simple, clean, and consistent. He has led technology teams as Head of Technology at Pow, partnered on product ventures in New York, and served as a senior lead engineer at Paramount, demonstrating comfort across consumer-facing and enterprise domains. Alexey’s approach emphasizes removing friction—technical and organizational—to accelerate delivery and scale teams effectively. Though his public GitHub footprint is minimal, his career shows a pattern of founding and shaping early-stage engineering cultures and tooling. He holds a technical background in automation and control of financial systems from South Ural State University, bringing disciplined systems thinking to product execution.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
86reputation
10kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (125)
parser10
json-schema10
react-table10
metadata10
datatable10
node-red10
pagination10
grouping10
datagrid10
extractor10
opengraph10
rss10
javascript10
feed10
solidjs10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
velocityzen/FileType
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
File type and mime detection by magic bytes
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 70 commits in 2 years 4 months
mimeswiftfile-formatfile-typesfile-type
velocityzen/sql-migrate-up
Mar 2023 - May 2025
Simple SQL Migration tool
Contributions:1 PR, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
fpfp-tsmigrationsql
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