Alex Novosad

Founder, Product & Engineering Lead · Bizarre Games

• Built most of Unchained (2024 – present), a live real-time multiplayer browser game: the Nuxt client, the Node API and the Socket.IO game server.
• Own the roadmap, game design and live ops. Invented its Seasonal mode, the timelapse battle royale.
• Shipped on Abstract, Ronin and Robinhood Chain with Privy login, in 4 languages. The contracts passed two Three Sigma audits.
• Build with AI coding agents daily, with human code review and agent-run security audits before launch.
• Direct a small remote team. Wrote the copy, cut the trailers, raised an angel round and pitched at an accelerator demo day (Sep 2024).

Venture Partner · Stacks Accelerator

• Sourced and mentored about 12 of the 25 DeFi, gaming and NFT startups in the first cohort, from pitch decks to investor introductions.
• Helped hire the managing director, the program manager and the analysts.

Brand Partnerships · Amplified Influencer Management

Founder & CEO · Gankstars Esports

• Won 3 of the 4 world championships we qualified for: Vainglory (2015) and Critical Ops (2017, 2018). Fielded an H1Z1 Pro League franchise team (2018).
• Grew from $0 to 300K followers and about $400K in best-year revenue. Secured a six-figure sponsorship and raised $150K.
• Hired and managed 35 pro players and a dozen staff. Ran contracts, KPIs and finance.
• Oversaw content production and the brand, including a rebrand with R/GA at Verizon's Media Tech Venture Studio (2017). Advised Verizon business units on entering esports.

Senior iOS Engineer · Intel, New Devices Group

• Lead developer of a smartwatch app's local data cache and its local-vs-server conflict resolution.
• Made firmware updates more reliable with a workflow that queues and tracks background processes.
• Primary developer of the out-of-box experience for a next-generation wearable.

Senior iOS Engineer · Life360

Special-projects team. Refactored the main Life360 app.

Senior Developer · Substantial

Built Choosy, an open-source app-picker SDK for iOS, and a small Ember.js project.

Indie iOS Developer · Self-employed

Senior C# Developer / Team Lead · Fidelity Information Services

• Built PayDirect, a white-label online checkout used by about 30% of US municipalities and small utilities. Each client's site could look completely different.
• Led a team of 4 inside a team of 7, and helped the group adopt Scrum.

Senior .NET Developer · Shaw Industries (via Modis)

• Wrote a system that reads hundreds of production sensors and catches defective carpet before it ships.
• Rebuilt an inherited specifications system on an n-tier architecture, which made it faster and easier to maintain.

Earlier engineering roles

• PureSafety (now part of UL), 2007 – 2008. Moved a Windows app to the web.
• In10sity Interactive, 2005 – 2008. Development, project management and client work.
• XM Radio (via Metron), 2005. Built the CMS behind shop.xmradio.com.
• American Star, 2002 – 2005. Development and project management for credit card processing.