Alexey Novokshonov
Software Engineering Manager, New Ventures at DraftKings Inc.
Software Engineering Manager @ DraftKings, New Ventures
Building awesome products at DraftKings, Inc.
DraftKings Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftkings-inc-
Became a founding member of new team at DK, called New Ventures. Its primary focus is to launch new product verticals, that fit well with overall DraftKings vision and mission. 

DK Marketplace became the first product launched by New Ventures team. As part of these initiative, I was leading engineering team responsible for backend system and integration with financial, marketing and blockchain platforms:
• Successfully scaled and managed team that grew from 2 engineers to 12 over the course of half a year. 
• Collaborated closely with product, operators, design teams to establish roadmap, set timelines and prioritize work deliverables. 
• Worked with tech leads to establish and promote best practices and design patterns across entire NV team. 

As a result, New Ventures launched NFT Marketplace in just 3 months. And it has been extremely successful during its first quarter with over $30M in transactions.
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Software Engineering Manager, New Ventures
DraftKings Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftkings-inc-
Led a team of 4 engineers, working on improvements in the core areas of DFS, namely drafting experience, lineups management and in-game experience:
• Partnered with product, operators, game analysts and other DFS teams to launched new game types and sports.
• Managed two co-op interns over the second half of the year. Based on their performance, full-time position was offered and both of them happily accepted it.
• Ensures that Fantasy Platform services can handle NFL load (DK's version of Amazon PrimeDay in terms of traffic increase).
• Improved service resiliency and decreased production incidents by 80%.

Led monthly division-wide (25+ heads) backend stream meetups, focusing on best practices and patterns, system architecture and new technology:
• Introduced backend linting rules.
• Created documentation around best practices regarding caching, db operation and async programming.
• Created environment for learning and knowledge sharing around less commonly used tech, such as Redis, MS Orleans, etc.
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Lead Software Engineer, Fantasy Platform
DraftKings Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftkings-inc-
Designed, developed, and maintained DraftKings marketing services, used across entire engineering organization:
• User attribution and partner integration
• Session management
• Bonus offers and promotions
• Refer-a-friend program
• Event tracking infrastructure
• Search engine optimization
• SOX compliant approval system
• User communications, including email, push and onsite notifications
Greater Boston Area
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Senior Software Engineer, Marketing Platform
DraftKings Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftkings-inc-
Greater Boston Area
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Software Engineer, Marketing Platform
University of Massachusetts Amherst
https://www.linkedin.com/company/umassamherst
Graded project assignments for the Computer Science course "Introduction to Problem Solving with Computers"
Amherst, MA
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Teaching Assistant - Grader
Boston Globe Media
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-boston-globe
- Developed websites with content management system for Boston Globe Special Events: http://globies.bostonglobe.com and http://islandrun.boston.com
- Winner of Boston Globe Media summer Hackathon.
Greater Boston Area
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Software / Web Development Intern
Bachelor's Degree
I graduated from the UMass, Amherst, majoring in computer science with concentration in artificial intelligence.
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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Won the Boston Globe Summer Hackathon by designing, developing and presenting two new Rich Media Advertisement templates. These templates implement various parallax effects and are dynamically generated based on certain ad parameters. They are also optimized to be used in Google's DFP.
Boston Globe Media
Winner of Summer Hackathon
Awarded course citation for outstanding performance and excellence in the following classes: 
- Introduction to Computation
- Computer System Principles 
- Web Programming
- Search Engines
- Algorithms
- Mobile Health Sensing and Analytics
UMass Faculty
Course Citation
Awarded honors for academic excellence and high GPA for all college semesters.
UMass Amherst
Dean's List honors
Abstract Algebra
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Algorithms
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Artificial Intelligence
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Computer Systems
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Introduction to Computation
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Linear Algebra
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Machine Learning
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Mobile Health Sensing and Monitoring
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Multivariable Calculus
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Natural Language Processing
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Programming Methodology
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Reasoning Under Uncertainty
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Search Engines
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Software Engineering
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Web Programming
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Oracle DBA (proitr.ru)
University Of Massachusetts at Amherst
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