Alex Milovidov

About

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I started coding at 8, ran Linux at 13, and wrote flight software for a space satellite at 20. IBM hired me at 21 and I spent the next decade going from writing code to leading the teams that wrote it.

Over 15 years I shipped products that generated $250M (Nike), $1.4B (Samsung), and launched a greenfield data analytics platform that generated $20M ARR from zero (TIBCO). Secured a $200M SAS-Microsoft partnership by identifying an ML product opportunity on Azure Fabric. Scaled Nike's fulfillment platform 6x to handle 50K+ orders/hour.

Today, I'm Head of Product at an AI startup where I build the product hands-on with Claude Code. We started with a consumer conversational AI app for travel creators (iOS/Android), then pivoted to B2B enterprise knowledge capture. The platform uses AI-driven expert interviews and a knowledge graph engine to help companies preserve institutional knowledge before it walks out the door. 90% pilot retention on the enterprise side. Cut inference costs 89% through custom model benchmarking across 6 vision models. 19 backend services in production.

I also teach teams to ship 10x faster with AI-assisted development at Canbuild.ai.

37 countries later, that travel bug inspired our first product.