Alexander Kharlamov

How an engineering team can maintain speed without sacrificing quality

alex — Thu, 12 May 2022 00:01:08 +0000

I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by BuiltIn on how engineering teams can move fast without cutting corners on quality, stability, and user experience. Please check it out!

Meet the Yieldstreet software engineering team

alex — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 02:21:36 +0000

I recently wrote a small piece for TheMuse about our engineering team. Please check it out to see our engineering core values, philosophy and pictures from our team events.

“Council of the Wise Developers” podcast

alex — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:01:56 +0000

I had a lot of fun talking all things tech to Enoch Wise – a billionaire transhumanist 10-xer on the spectrum. Need I say more? Check out the podcast here!

Podcast on Innovation and Hackathons

alex — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:15:19 +0000

I was a guest on Yieldstreet’s “The Yield” podcast episode #31, where – together with my coworkers Talia Fayaz and Joe Sancio – I talked about engineering innovation and the Hackathons that I ran during the 2020 pandemic. Check it out!

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How to run a Hackathon during a global lockdown

alex — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 23:14:33 +0000

My first post on Yieldstreet’s “Distributed” blog – detailing my experience running a fully remote Hackathon for our team during the Covid-19 lockdown.

https://distributed.yieldstreet.com/how-to-run-a-hackathon-during-a-global-lockdown/

How to Get Product and Engineering to Collaborate While Remote

alex — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 17:05:08 +0000

It was great to be interviewed by BuiltInNYC for the article on best ways to get product/engineering teams to collaborate during these difficult times.

Check out the article here!

New company blog – Yieldstreet Distributed

alex — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:18:50 +0000

It’s been a while since my last post, tons of things happened, which one day I will hopefully write an update about. I’m usually too busy building exciting stuff to post on a regular basis.. but I will make an effort to write more.

For now – check out the new product, design and engineering blog at Yieldstreet. It’s called “Distributed”, which is a play on words:

Distributed architecture
Distributions we make to our investors
Distributed nature of our engineering team

I put this blog together myself using Ghost – a great new CMS I really like. I used a template for the design – with some help from our design team to make it better. I’ve been using WordPress since 2006 and launched many many successful sites on it.. but it has a number of issues and a combination of Ghost + Gatsby has been great – it’s super fast (since it’s a static site), secure (since the admin dashboard can be behind VPN), good set of features and easy to use. But that’s fodder for another blog post

Very soon I will actually write something for our new tech blog myself as well.. stay tuned!

Mark43’s 2018 ‘Dope’ Hackathon Rundown

alex — Mon, 07 May 2018 13:02:45 +0000

We had another awesome hackathon at Mark43. Check out my article for our engineering blog, with some cool project details! https://medium.com/mark43-engineering/mark43s-2018-dope-hackathon-rundown-a96e35d3301a

Internet is Mission Critical

alex — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:56:24 +0000

Police departments should treat internet as mission critical — at headquarters, substations, mobile data terminals (MDTs), and any other locations. Check out my first article for Mark43 blog!

https://www.mark43.com/internet-mission-critical/

Things to consider before buying enterprise software

alex — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 13:03:40 +0000

My latest for Forbes – based on some hard-earned experience buying enterprise software