Alex Shugaley
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Max Kolchinsky
Alex has tremendously impacted my growth at Fiverr thanks to his great skills as a developer, as a teacher and as a communicator. He was a true asset to our team and was leading and managing a lot of highly important tasks detrimental to our teams impact on the business. Highly recommend working with him!
Max Kolchinsky
Alex has tremendously impacted my growth at Fiverr thanks to his great skills as a developer, as a teacher and as a communicator. He was a true asset to our team and was leading and managing a lot of highly important tasks detrimental to our teams impact on the business. Highly recommend working with him!
Max Kolchinsky
Alex has tremendously impacted my growth at Fiverr thanks to his great skills as a developer, as a teacher and as a communicator. He was a true asset to our team and was leading and managing a lot of highly important tasks detrimental to our teams impact on the business. Highly recommend working with him!
Max Kolchinsky
Alex has tremendously impacted my growth at Fiverr thanks to his great skills as a developer, as a teacher and as a communicator. He was a true asset to our team and was leading and managing a lot of highly important tasks detrimental to our teams impact on the business. Highly recommend working with him!
Experience
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Nift
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Analytics Manager
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Jun 2023 - Present
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Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Consultant
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Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Spent the summer as a Summer Consultant at BCG's digital practice. Designed big data and data science algorithmics to allow a multinational industrial corporation to unlock productivity and manufacturing performance. Allowing the client to successfully implement changes that drove a 5% improvement in productivity. Spent the summer as a Summer Consultant at BCG's digital practice. Designed big data and data science algorithmics to allow a multinational industrial corporation to unlock productivity and manufacturing performance. Allowing the client to successfully implement changes that drove a 5% improvement in productivity.
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Fiverr
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineering Team Lead
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Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Chosen to lead a newly created team with ownership a strategically important search engine optimization program. A first-of-its-kind for the company, developing the processes, knowledge and framework from scratch. My team:- Decreased the amount of errors by 90%- Improved user experience by reducing the redirect rate from 75% to <1%- Introduced monitoring tools which allow to detect SEO issues in real time- Implemented features that allowed personalisation and localisation of pages on the website- Improved the performance of SEO pages by 900% Show less
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Financials & Payments Backend Lead
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Jul 2019 - Mar 2021
- Designed a new payment flow and data reporting system, and led 2 software engineers implementing it, adding 10 new payment methods, and enabling features generating over $10M revenues annually.- Collaborated with Data, Product, and Customer Service team leaders to design the roadmap for “Fiverr Financials 202x,” Fiverr’s future financial architecture for managing projected revenue growth of 300%- Oversee and lead new engineers and analysts training (total of 6 new hires)
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Financials & Payments Software Engineer
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Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
- Co-conceptualized and developed banking/accounting systems that clarified financial status of all players in Fiverr’s marketplace and created required transparency to initiate company’s IPO; Fiverr went public 6 months after implementation- Liaised with UX and localization teams and payment services providers on 3 continents to develop solutions for tech issues- Improved user experience and decreased CS tickets by 95% by improving the invoicing system for > $1B in accountsExtensive experience with AWS, microservices, and event-driven architecture. Developed mostly in Ruby, React. Used MySQL, Redis & MongoDB. Show less
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Risk & Fraud Detection Software Engineer
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Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Part of the Security Trusteer division Had Full ownership of fraud detection system’s upgrade to new operating systems and web browsers; Worked with QA, R&D, product teams and clients in Japan, US & Europe to troubleshoot technical issues for over 3 million users’ endpoints Part of the Security Trusteer division Had Full ownership of fraud detection system’s upgrade to new operating systems and web browsers; Worked with QA, R&D, product teams and clients in Japan, US & Europe to troubleshoot technical issues for over 3 million users’ endpoints
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Simplex
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Israel
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Financial Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Fraud Analyst
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Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Implemented and refined online credit card fraud prevention system. Used both statistical tool (SQL based) and qualitative research (specific cases in-depth study). - Established training program for analysts and trained several analysts as staff increased by 150% - Led to a 50% reduction in monetary loss due to false-positives Implemented and refined online credit card fraud prevention system. Used both statistical tool (SQL based) and qualitative research (specific cases in-depth study). - Established training program for analysts and trained several analysts as staff increased by 150% - Led to a 50% reduction in monetary loss due to false-positives
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Israeli Military Intelligence
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Israel
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Team Lead
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Jul 2013 - Apr 2015
- Promoted to officer’s role as a non-commissioned officer; led a team on intelligence aggregation and analysis for research and policy desks, collaborating with domestic and international partner agencies - Received 2 commendation letters (2013, 2014) from Head of Military Intelligence for “exceptional personal contribution”
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Intelligence Analyst
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Apr 2012 - Jul 2013
- Only Recipient (from 400 analysts) of Personal Excellence Award given by Head of Research Department (1-star general)- Informed decision-making processes of IDF’s Major General and Prime Minister by analyzing information from various intelligence agencies to present different security and political scenarios that could arise from various actions- Led training and lectures on foreign relations and international politics to other departments inside and outside the IDF
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Education
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The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Master of Business Administration - MBA -
Tel Aviv University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Economics