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About
Chris Alexiou
I’m an ops person and software janitor currently building tools for engineering teams.
Experience
I’ve worked across the spectrum of engineering organizations:
- enterprise: Google (interned), Bloomreach
- startups: Comidor, Flightcast, Adia Health, Budibase, Alfaview, Clutch
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:
What I Write About
My writing focuses on:
- distributed systems - Consensus algorithms, networking patterns, Kubernetes internals
- engineering culture - Industry dynamics, organizational patterns, critical perspectives
- startup engineering - Founding and scaling engineering teams
Contact
I don’t monitor my social media. If you’d like to reach me, email me at c@christos.id.