Alex Kogon has a long and broad experience as a software engineer, having worked as an architect, quantitative developer, senior manager, lead developer, CTO, coach, mentor, trainer, automation developer, devops implementer, and pretty much every other role imaginable since he was a teenager.

Alex started working heavily with test automation and continuous integration while working as a quantitative developer building complex mathematical options pricing models for banks and trading companies, where bugs can cost the company millions of dollars in minutes and have put many out of business. From this experience Alex became quickly convinced of the value of continuous integration and has helped many companies implement CI systems and adapt their culture to leverage them.