Alex is currently a staff software engineer at Netflix, where he is working on building a unified global digital Studio that powers the effective production of Netflix content. Prior to joining Netflix, Alex had designed, implemented, and run various World-scale distributed systems, including ML infrastructure for payments fraud detection at Google; large-scale backends at Nest; microservice architecture for world-leading social casino games; and core infrastructure services for a unicorn startup. He has been a speaker on technologies and building reliable software systems at numerous conferences, including Devoxx, DevNexus, JavaOne, QCon Plus, OSCON and others.