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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:

• Fabulas de Machina
• The Capital Archive

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.

elsewhere

• GitHub
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

disclaimer

This page is mostly for SEO. I don’t like to talk about myself, especially in this way. But, there’s no escaping from the algorithm.