Alexander Ryzhko

Alexander Ryzhko has a diverse and extensive work experience. Alexander currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at Lyte, a role they started in August 2022. Prior to this, they served as the Head of Engineering and Chief Architect at Lyte, contributing to the expansion of the engineering team from 5 to 25 members across multiple offices and timezones. During their tenure, they played a key role in various projects, including building a new product with a fresh codebase, deploying scalable container-orchestration cloud infrastructure, establishing a development process integrated with task management and CI/CD systems, integrating QA and test automation, strategically separating a monolithic system into services, expanding data aggregation and analysis, and improving fraud prevention.

Before joining Lyte, Alexander worked as a Lead Developer at the same company, where they transformed a convoluted and unsupported codebase into an easily manageable and deployable system. During this time, they rapidly prototyped multiple business ideas into functioning minimum viable products (MVPs), integrated key third-party services, and established the company's first partnership integrations.

Additionally, Alexander has experience as the Co-Founder and CTO of RECC, a role they held from November 2013 to September 2014. Alexander was responsible for laying the technical foundation of the company.

Earlier in their career, Alexander served as the Head of Research & Development at the Department of General Engineering, Polytechnic University of NYU. In this role, they conducted research and development activities, including constructing a magnetic levitation track prototype, soldering circuit boards, and testing and improving track performance, propulsion, and sensor systems.

Overall, Alexander Ryzhko's work experience showcases their expertise in technology leadership, engineering management, software development, infrastructure deployment, process optimization, and research and development.

Alexander Ryzhko pursued their education at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering. Alexander earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Computer Engineering from 2010 to 2014. Later, they furthered their studies in the field of Computer Science and obtained a Master of Science (M.S.) degree from the same institution, completing their coursework from 2012 to 2014.