# Alex Pomerenk

> Lead Developer and Founding Member, Starfish

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexpomerenk

## Work Experience
### Lead Developer @ Starfish
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Lead developer for the Starfish Network

### Advisory Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2020 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Astor Place, NYC
Architected and implemented a graph based system for tracing a supply chain
Designed data retention cache system to vastly reduce storage costs, and the corresponding cache rehydration steps

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Yorktown Heights, New York
Designed and implemented access control graph layer on a supply chain backend, using Redis, Rabbitmq, and Elasticsearch
Developed a system and the corresponding algorithms for querying an Elasticsearch database as a graph database
Tested performance of system with Docker

### Navigation Subteam Lead, CUSAIL project team @ Cornell University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Worked as part of a twelve person team to create a two-meter-long boat to autonomously sail itself

Designed and implemented the short range and long range navigation control code in C++, mounted on an Arduino which interacted with sensors on the boat to dynamically react to changes in position

Simulated algorithm in a dynamics MATLAB environment and tested in Lake Cayuga

Successfully navigated courses in Sailbot competition in Maryland against other autonomous boats

### Cyber Software Intern @ Northrop Grumman Corporation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Annapolis Junction, MD
Developed a Software Defined Network logging infrastructure pipeline using the Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana stack with Docker containers in a Centos7 environment. Created analytics orchestrator to make decisions about load-balancing a network based on system statistics using bash scripting and Docker. Dynamically spun up compute nodes and redirected traffic to load-balance the system

### Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | McLean, VA
Created virtual reality immersive network visualization on Samsung Gear VR headset.

### Information Technology Intern @ Northrop Grumman Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | McLean VA
Network analysis, network visualization, algorithm development


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Cornell University

### Walt Whitman High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-pomerenk-30a9859b

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Last updated: 2026-04-01