Hello, I'm Alex

Hello,

I'm Alex .

Payments and Fraud Engineering Lead specializing in revenue recovery and decline reduction at scale.

Impact Snapshot

Recovered 3M dollars in four months and reduced false positives by 1.3 percent through high scale fraud and payment optimization.

Current role: Payments and Fraud Prevention Lead at ŌURA

I'm building payment and fraud prevention infrastructure for the world's most advanced health wearable. The Ōura smart ring tracks sleep, activity, and menstrual cycles with 7 temperature sensors.

Key Impact

$3M recovered in 4 months - Implemented step-up auth for fraud blocked users
1.3% reduction in false positives - Recovering $11K/day in lost revenue

Previous Experience

Payments Lead at Natural Cycles

World's first FDA-cleared birth control app using temperature tracking and algorithmic cycle prediction.

Impact

$600K monthly revenue increase - 13.36% approval rate improvement through payment optimization
10% churn reduction - Custom retry strategy for failed recurring payments
3+ million users served - Built a scalable discount system for all marketing campaigns

Senior Software Engineer at Heads

Heads builds retail software, similar to Square Pay . My responsibilities include building and maintaining the react frontend, node backend and the Heads POS iOS app.

My main contributions to Heads

The company website heads.com (Astro)
The Heads Design System (React)
The Heads POS app (iOS)

Machine Learning Project

I worked on a prototype Sales Prediction Engine capable of forecasting product demand, such as Coke sales for the next two weeks, enabling data-driven re-stocking automation and optimizing inventory management.

Startups

I love being in the intersection between technology and business strategy, which is why I've started 3 companies, each time to create something truly meaningful to others.

iSpect - enabling construction companies to gain actionable insights from their projects 👷‍♂️

I founded iSpect in 2020 - an Inspection Platform for the Construction Industry.

iSpect streamlines the daily operations of an inspection company while at the same time providing construction companies with a powerful platform to make data-driven decisions

I built out the iSpect platform with the following stack:

vuejs , dotnet-core , graphql-dotnet , Couchbase , Postmark , Puppeteer , PeAccounting Integration (think Quickbooks) , Microsoft Graph Api Integration , BankID Integration

A Customer Portal built with vuejs & apollo-graphql
An issue reporting tool built with vuejs & apollo-graphql
An iOS app written in good old objc using CouchbaseLite for offline persistence & sync

Buildcraft - an App Store for Construction

I helped co-found Buildcraft in 2018 - an iPaaS for Construction; together with Joachim Wester and Anton Fagerberg using the Starcounter Platform

Buildcraft had the grand vision of not just connecting (iPaaS) all of the disparate softwares in Construction, but to create a game-like world with Unreal Engine like graphics. This world would serve as the Air Traffic Control Tower for the construction site. At the heart of Buildcraft was the BIM/3D model, connecting every single system into one single source of truth.

iControl - Replaces paper reports with a mobile app at construction sites

I founded iControl with Anton Fagerberg in 2015 which is a 500 Startups alumni - Batch 19.

Having previously built an app for building inspectors, it quickly dawned on us that inspectors weren't the only ones stuck writing reports all day long.

And that's how iControl was born, we realized that we could help so many more people if we simply replaced paper with an app at Construction Sites.

One simple but elegant insight was that we could service all construction documentation use cases but simply marrying the blueprint/drawing with a form. Every single report made on site fits into a PDF-form and almost always refers to a drawing

At the time I was primarily an iOS dev and our team built iControl using the following stack

The backend consisting of dotnet standard, Couchbase, Postmark
The closeout app built with reactjs
The project management app built with reactjs
The iOS app written in swift using the VIPER pattern and CouchbaseLite for offline persistence & sync