Chris Alexiou

• currently building tools for engineering teams
• founded
  • Podbeam - a podcasting platform backed by Pioneer, amongst others
  • Garret Street - a behavioral analytics engine for high-volume retail trading data, acquired in 2025
• podcasts (through Dark Studios)
  • Fabulas de Machina
  • The Capital Archive
• topics
  • distributed systems
  • engineering culture
• writing
  • the illusion of venture capital in startup dynamics 2024-12-01
  • exposure 2024-01-27
  • an implementation of the paxos algorithm in rust 2024-01-05
  • unit testing prometheus rules for reliable monitoring 2023-04-07
  • corporate dictatorships 2022-07-10
• I don't monitor my social media. If you'd like to reach me, email me at c@christos.id.