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Oleksandr Zalizniak

Oleksandr Zalizniak

Founder & Systems Engineer. Twenty years building backend systems at scale. Now building the tools that make them reliable.

Résumé: PDF · DOCX · LinkedIn

I’m Oleksandr. Twenty years on backend systems: cloud infrastructure and microservices on AWS, across SaaS, e-commerce, fintech, and telecom. Founding engineer and CTO of an AI native SaaS platform.

My passion is effortless durable execution: workflow engines, the code that runs on them, and the tooling around both.

I live in Upstate, NY.

  • Product engineering. Architecture, backend, infrastructure, and observability. Most recently an AI native contract platform: an agent runtime on Temporal, a document processing service, and a React frontend.
  • Backend and cloud architecture. Distributed systems on AWS, built to stay up under load and to cost what they should.
  • Durable execution. A year running LLM agents on Temporal.
  • Formal methods, applied. TLA+, Quint, and my own TypeScript model checker, run against real production workflow code.
  • Technical leadership. Cross-functional teams of backend, frontend, and QA engineers, from idea to launch. GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 work.

Signus.ai is an AI native contract intelligence platform, built around Sigi, a legal agent that generates, signs, analyzes, and tracks agreements at scale. I co-founded it and built it from zero as CTO: backend, agent service, frontend, and infrastructure.

The agent runtime runs on Temporal, with durable workflows for chat, redline, risk analysis, and contract questions. That is where I learned how hard these workflows are to debug once they are live.

If you run workflows in production and they give you trouble, I want to hear about it.

alex@zalizniak.com · LinkedIn