Alexander Kalankhodzhaev

Co-founded Yieldia, a Solana-native revenue market for issuing, distributing, and managing early-stage capital instruments on-chain. Designed the product and technical architecture from the ground up while remaining the primary hands-on engineer.

Served as a founding engineer and led Raiku's core engineering team, combining technical leadership with hands-on development of its coordination layer for Solana. Helped shape architecture, protocol design, product direction, and tokenomics from the project's early stage.

Co-founded Deitos, an open, decentralized platform for data storage, processing, and AI model training. Built the end-to-end proof of concept for Aimosphere, a privacy-first redesign of Deitos focused on secure AI model deployment, confidential interactions, and on-chain coordination.

Worked on the Solutions and Services Delivery team, providing technical advisory, hands-on development, and support to teams building on Substrate and Polkadot. Responsibilities included architecture reviews, implementation guidance, and troubleshooting support for external clients and internal Parity teams.

Hired to technically lead a new blockchain initiative as the company's first team member in this area. Led the full development lifecycle, from design to production, of Seals, a blockchain platform for secure document storage, sharing, and verification.

Hired to establish and lead Rosneft's blockchain development team, with a focus on building internal expertise and providing technical consulting across business units. Led two major initiatives: a blockchain-based supply chain system for oil refineries, and another for managing logistics and retail integration across gas stations and partners.

Initially hired to work on the Mobile API in C#, quickly expanded contributions to lower-level services across the platform and developed reusable libraries for geographic coordinate manipulation in both C# and Scala. Designed and implemented a geo search API in Scala, now used across multiple services.

Led the development of Afisha.Food, a social network for cooking enthusiasts, overseeing the project end-to-end including backend and frontend development, mobile API design, and integration with the broader Rambler ecosystem. Also led the development of the website and mobile platforms for Afisha.Picnic and developed backend APIs for Afisha.Guides mobile apps.

Led the development of the bank's loan processing pipeline using the CRIF CreditFlow framework and Oracle RDBMS. Designed workflows in a BPMN-like notation, with data stored in XML and business logic implemented in XSLT.

Led the development of a custom, web-based CRM system built from the ground up. Responsible for architecture design, implementation, and team coordination.

Worked as part of the Human Capital team, contributing to the development of in-house financial software focused on tax-related processes. The system was an intranet application built with ASP.NET Web Forms, integrated with a custom reporting server using .NET Remoting for communication.

MSc in Business Informatics from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, from 2007 to 2009.

BSc in Business Informatics from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, from 2003 to 2007.