Alex Bogdanov

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Founding engineer turned sole-engineer rebuilder. 13 years of making data systems work.

Hey, I'm Alex Bogdanov

Data engineer and builder. 13 years of making data systems work.

Built data platforms since before the title existed. Started with Hadoop/MapReduce, now it's Kafka, Flink, and whatever gets the job done.

Founding engineer at SO1: minimum salary, real equity, built the data platform from scratch, stayed through acquisition by Schwarz Gruppe.

Most recently rebuilt an entire company's data infrastructure solo: pipelines, ML serving, CI/CD, infra-as-code.

I build things that work and I ship them fast.

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A pixelated 20px game icon at 24% accuracy vs a crisp HOG-recognised icon at 97.5% accuracy

I Spent 8 Iterations Prompt-Engineering an LLM to Read 20-Pixel Icons. A 2005 Algorithm Did It Better.

The most expensive AI model scored 17% identifying tiny game icons. A gradient histogram algorithm from 2005, written in 170 lines of TypeScript, scored 97.5%.
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