Alek Festekjian

Senior Product Manager at NuArca Labs
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Languages
  • English Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Armenian Native or bilingual proficiency

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Alek worked on my team during the summer of 2016, focusing on overhauling the reporting and analytics backend for our AWS Quick Start program. He proved to be a very valuable asset, with strong coding skills and an ability to pick-up new skills quickly. I was particularly impressed by how Alek quickly learned Apache Spark, and within a day of being exposed to EMR clusters was running batch analytics jobs against a huge number of logs. Our AWS Quick Start launch and user view metrics are better and more accurate directly as a result of Alek's contributions.

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Experience

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Product Manager
      • May 2021 - Present

      Building white-label fan engagement platform for Athletes, Musicians and Sports Leagues Building white-label fan engagement platform for Athletes, Musicians and Sports Leagues

    • Bangladesh
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Development Engineer II
      • Jun 2019 - May 2021

      - Tech Lead- Knowledge Tech Organization

    • Software Development Engineer
      • Aug 2017 - Jun 2019

      SCOT-Knowledge Tech

    • Software Engineering Intern
      • May 2016 - Aug 2016

      •Worked on AWS Quickstart team and redesigned metrics reporting infrastructure on 1+ million log files•Created metrics dashboards to allow for senior managers to gain insight into performance of Quickstarts •Used AWS Elastic Map Reduce and PySpark to reduce reporting runtime from 4+ hours to under 10 minutes •Worked on AWS Quickstart team and redesigned metrics reporting infrastructure on 1+ million log files•Created metrics dashboards to allow for senior managers to gain insight into performance of Quickstarts •Used AWS Elastic Map Reduce and PySpark to reduce reporting runtime from 4+ hours to under 10 minutes

    • Morocco
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Vice-President and Head of Internal Operations
      • Apr 2015 - Aug 2016

      • Manage a team running various events to spread entrepreneurship through campus• Aid event directors in running large and successful events which include Startup Career Fair, 54.io, and Startup Bootcamp• Manage RSOs finances

    • Startup Career Fair Director
      • Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

      • Leading a team to organize a Startup Career fair in the Spring and Fall• Contacting potential recruiters to attend event

    • 54 Project Director
      • Mar 2014 - Mar 2015

      • Leading a team to organize a Startup Weekend during the fall• Raised $9000+ for the event• Reaching out to members of entrepreneurial community to mentor students during event.

    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Systems Programming Teaching Assistant
      • Aug 2015 - May 2016

      •Conduct weekly office hours to aid students in debugging and understanding machine problems•Helping build and maintain an auto grading framework to automatically grade assignments for over 200 students •Conduct weekly office hours to aid students in debugging and understanding machine problems•Helping build and maintain an auto grading framework to automatically grade assignments for over 200 students

    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Developer on Smart Cloud Notes Team
      • May 2015 - Aug 2015

      •Leveraged Kafka, an open-source message broker, to develop a Proof of Concept distributed queue processing system to improve processing speed and reliability for user provisioning and company directory synchronization for a cloud based messaging system•Proof of Concept project led to the creation of a new long-term development project. •Leveraged Kafka, an open-source message broker, to develop a Proof of Concept distributed queue processing system to improve processing speed and reliability for user provisioning and company directory synchronization for a cloud based messaging system•Proof of Concept project led to the creation of a new long-term development project.

    • Media Production
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Developer
      • May 2014 - Aug 2014

      • Worked collaboratively to create a Proof of Concept for a new product utilizing multiple technologies such asMicrosoft SQL, Spring Restful Services, HTML, and JavaScript• Proof of Concept resulted in the development of a new project plan to integrate enhancement into the current product structure which is anticipated to improve client satisfaction • Worked collaboratively to create a Proof of Concept for a new product utilizing multiple technologies such asMicrosoft SQL, Spring Restful Services, HTML, and JavaScript• Proof of Concept resulted in the development of a new project plan to integrate enhancement into the current product structure which is anticipated to improve client satisfaction

    • United States
    • Summer Intern
      • Jul 2013 - Aug 2013

      • Interned at a company that created a mobile app based on video reviews rather than written reviews• Worked as beta tester, interacting directly with the developers and CEO in addressing bugs in the app• Worked as a video analyst reviewing videos submitted by users for a promotion run by the company • Interned at a company that created a mobile app based on video reviews rather than written reviews• Worked as beta tester, interacting directly with the developers and CEO in addressing bugs in the app• Worked as a video analyst reviewing videos submitted by users for a promotion run by the company

    • Armenia
    • Education Administration Programs
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Activity Team Member
      • Jul 2012 - Jul 2012

      • Collaborated with an activity team designing lessons for over 300 kids in animation, game development, web development and digital media • Collaborated with an activity team designing lessons for over 300 kids in animation, game development, web development and digital media

    • Leisure, Travel & Tourism
    • Volunteer
      • Aug 2011 - Aug 2011

      • Homestay in Yerevan in which being fluent In Armenian was necessary• Volunteered at orphanages and aided in construction of houses for multiple families in impoverished villages • Homestay in Yerevan in which being fluent In Armenian was necessary• Volunteered at orphanages and aided in construction of houses for multiple families in impoverished villages

Education

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
    2013 - 2017
  • Dexter Southfield School
    High School Diploma
    2009 - 2013

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