Alex Nodeland
Experience
Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with and founded several tech startups across supercomputing and music-technology, in technical and commercial roles, and as individual contributor and manager.
In 2018, I launched Archanan, a Singapore-based company focused on delivering supercomputing development environments in the cloud, with emulated supercomputer backends and a browser-based IDE interface. While building Archanan, I gained a deep understanding of the supercomputing space and its tangential counterparts, (i.e. chip manufacturing, cloud platforms, computational science). Navigating such a complex and highly-regulated field encouraged the development of flexible strategy across the company, allowing us to explore a wide range of technical and commercial practices.
Tools I work with
Tech Lead
Musiio (acquired by SoundCloud) 2021 - 2022
Led team of engineers and developers on a cross-functional team, working closely with stakeholders on the music team, as well as with external customers and partners
Led development process: designing, implementing, and training the team on new workflows, managed team scheduling, coordinated with stakeholders on music research and sales teams
Analyzed existing operations and held training sessions and meetings to discuss and implement improvements
Mentored team members: provided guidance and support to team members to help them succeed at Musiio, and develop their careers, while maintaining interest and engagement
Worked closely with the founders to create development plans and roadmaps that fulfill business needs
Worked with customers and partners to guide the technical development of projects and provide guidance and support as needed
Managed infrastructure, monitoring, and DevOps across the production, test, and staging environments, implemented an automated testing strategy and framework, designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration
Developed, tested, and integrated production code
CEO & Co-Founder
Archanan 2018 - 2022
Planned and derived business model and go to market strategies - Created dynamic financial projections
Integrated management systems to create a seamless and coherent management workflow
Lead the development of early rounds of funding from government, VC, and angel investors
Attracted several large institutions including Fortune 500 companies and national governments, as early customers
Iterated on productization concepts, helped create MVPs, create product roadmaps, implement development, bring to market
Grew team about five times in the first year of operation
Managed diplomatic relations with and between multiple national, provincial, and city government bodies
Founder in Residence
Entrepreneur First 2018 - 2018
One of 100 people from 36 countries out of 4000 applicants selected for the EFSG3 Cohort.
Iterated over early ideas
Conducted market research for idea validation
Secured early LOIs and brought MVPs to fruition
Created and implemented go to market strategies
Created financial models to plan and predict performance of business models
Founded Archanan with Lukasz Orlowski
CTO, Chief Mathematician
Scala Computing 2016 - 2017
Raised capital from prominent US-based VCs and angels - Member of Grand Central Tech Accelerator
Designed, architected, and implemented MVPs
Developed, tested, and integrated production code
Implemented robust development processes across a geographically distributed team
Managed a team of software developers, delivering cloud middleware solutions for latency minimization
Lead algorithm development for problems in graph theory, optimization, clustering, and networks.
Artist in Residence
Center of Excellence in Wireless Information Technology 2016 - 2017
Designed, prototyped, and tested audio synthesizers
Designed, tested, and implemented unique circuit designs
Create artistic content using academic research as a tool
Interface with music technology industry professionals to convey underlying mathematics and technological concepts
Researcher
SUNY Research Foundation 2016 - 2017
Led a project funded by the High Performance Computing Consortium of New York
Researched the construction of optimal wavelet bases for audio compression
Analyzed signals from physical instruments in real time, in order to observe trends in time-frequency spectra
Assistant Product Engineer
Absara Audio 2014 - 2015
Developed production firmware for Real Time Operating System devices for audio processing
Continuous integration of new features for frequent releases
Wrote technical documentation and user manuals for audio processing units
Technician
Absara Audio 2010 - 2014
Populated printed circuit boards for audio processing units
Tested quality and integrity of hardware devices
Responsible for servicing customer hardware
Led technical customer service