Customer-first software development across industries

I helped companies like J.P. Morgan, Dropbox, and Coinbase deliver value to their end users.

10+ years delivering customer first software across industries.

Athens · Remote friendlyCurrently: Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Illustrated avatar of Alex Mylonas

Experienced in building across the stack from pixel-perfect User Interfaces to scalable Serverless Distributed Systems.

Previously Panther · Goodpath · DasWealth

Focus

What I'm doing

Institutional-grade blockchain systems

Design and deploy industry-leading services and guardrails.

  • Solutions for financial institutions and investment instrustments
  • Privacy-preserving tokenization for regulated DeFi
  • Cross-chain data streaming for real-time monitoring
  • Developer tooling for identity and transaction management

Product-led engineering

Translate fuzzy strategies & docs into actionable plans that get shipped and provide value out of the box.

  • Authored 20+ RFCs guiding product and engineering decisions
  • Value-driven decision making for implementation planning
  • Customer-centric approach to software development

Advising, hiring & writing

Partnering with stakeholders and founders to scale engineering organizations and share reusable playbooks.

  • Assisted scaling engineering orgs from single-digit to high-growth teams
  • Angel investing and consulting for pre-seed stage startups
  • Launched blog and newsletter for industry insights (coming soon!)

Writing & talks

Field notes made for builders

Press Release1 min read

J.P. Morgan Asset Management Launches Its First Tokenized Money Market Fund

Banking giant launches its first tokenized money market fund, My OnChain Net Yield Fund (“MONY”)

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Whitepaper1hr 30min read

Fueling Tokenized Finance with On-Chain Enterprise Privacy, Identity, and Composability

From Billions to Trillions: Privacy and identity as catalysts for asset tokenization, Project E.P.I.C. whitepaper

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Blog · Launching soonSubscribe to get updates

Alex's Edge Blog — engineering insights

A newsletter + blog that covers what I’m learning across fintech, identity, and platform engineering.

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Experience

Every role was a zero-to-one story

Highlights from shipping products with high stakes and even higher expectations.

  1. Sept 2023 — PresentJ.P. Morgan · Kinexys

    Senior Software Engineer

    Leading several projects in architecture, product, and engineering.

    • Real-time stream of EVM events for smart contract monitoring
    • Architected the Account Abstraction SDK and authored adoption playbooks
    • Implemented advanced privacy tech (ZKP, FHE, stealth addresses) for fund tokenization
    • Interoperability evaluation for cross-chain data sharing
    • Patent-awarded for privacy-preserving tokenization
  2. Mar 2020 — Aug 2023Panther

    Staff Software Engineer

    Scaled a cloud-native security analytics and alerting platform used by Dropbox, Docker, and Coinbase.

    • Delivered core product features adopted by marquee customers, driving revenue
    • Contributed to ingestion pipelines processing petabytes of security telemetry
    • Authored 10+ RFCs formalizing architecture and security frameworks
    • Mentored 5+ engineers and helped scale the org from 7 to 80+ people
  3. May 2019 — Feb 2020Goodpath

    Senior Software Engineer

    Built the first consumer web app plus the CI/CD backbone for personalized care plans.

    • Launched the inaugural web experience with a modern component library
    • Established automated delivery that slashed deployment time
    • Integrated multiple partner APIs to unlock new product capabilities
  4. Dec 2018 — Apr 2019DasWealth

    Co-founder & CTO

    Co-founded a crypto robo-advisor focused on personalized stable/alt coin portfolios.

    • Launched the MVP product end-to-end
    • Integrated Kraken and MoonPay to streamline onboarding and trading
  5. Apr 2016 — Nov 2018Flashchat

    Lead Engineer

    Built the core modular chatbot platform and Agile delivery practices for growth teams.

    • Developed the flagship chatbot service and customization tooling
    • Established Agile frameworks that improved collaboration across teams
    • Led a four-person engineering team focused on rapid customer delivery
  6. Jun 2015 — Mar 2016Forward Optimized Interactivity

    Frontend Engineer

    Delivered the company’s first enterprise web app serving B2B clients in Athens.

    • Designed and coded the initial UI system with performance budgets
    • Partnered with founders on roadmap, onboarding, and customer demos

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