Alex Bogdanov

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Founding engineer. 13 years building data platforms from zero to acquisition.

Hey, I'm Alex Bogdanov

Data engineer. 13 years building data platforms from zero.

Started with Hadoop/MapReduce, now it's Kafka, Flink, and whatever gets the job done.

Founding engineer at SO1 — built the data platform from scratch, stayed through acquisition by Schwarz Gruppe. That platform now serves Lidl and Kaufland across 12,000+ stores.

Most recently rebuilt Tourlane's entire data infrastructure solo — powering $100M+ in annual bookings, 90% cost reduction, pipeline delivery from a month to three days.

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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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