Alex Zhdankin

Alex is a network and software engineer with 25 years’ experience working in both large established firms and startups. He has deep experience leading teams for large distributed and mission critical systems; systems that have been deployed in commercial companies and government organizations domestically and across the globe, including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and DoD. Prior to Ai2, Alex worked at Cisco Systems where he designed and led the redesign of the device/network programmability stack, which is now being shipped on 2 million devices every year. Before that he was Chief Software Architect at Harris Corporation Network Management Business Unit, where he led industry-wide standardization efforts on information modeling and management APIs in the areas of Telecommunications and IT management. Alex has a Masters of EE degree from Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, Russia where he graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1994. He holds a number of US and International Patents.