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title: "Alex Tsankov — Finance, Tax & Legal Infrastructure Engineer"
description: "Alex Tsankov is a senior engineer specializing in reliable financial, tax, and legal infrastructure."
canonical_url: https://antsankov.com/
last_updated: "2026-06-28"
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# Alex Tsankov

Alex Tsankov, also known online as **antsankov**, is a senior site reliability and software engineer specializing in reliable infrastructure for financial, tax, and legal systems. His work also spans production infrastructure, distributed systems, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, and applied artificial intelligence.

## Professional focus

- Financial infrastructure and financial technology
- Tax infrastructure and software systems
- Legal infrastructure and software systems
- Site reliability engineering and production operations
- Cloud and platform infrastructure: Linux, AWS, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, load balancing, CDNs, Jenkins, Ansible, and Bash
- Software engineering: Go, Python, Java, JavaScript, Django, Express.js, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL
- Applied AI infrastructure: large language models, LLaMA, llama.cpp, CUDA, ETL pipelines, Jupyter, GPUs, and DGX SuperPOD systems
- Cybersecurity, international affairs, and finance

## Experience

- **Bloomberg LP (2020–present):** Senior Site Reliability Engineer
- **Chainalysis (2019–2020):** Software Engineer
- **Paxos (2017–2018):** DevOps Engineer
- **Workiva (2015–2017):** Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and intern
- **Google (2015–2016):** DevOps intern
- **Next Generation Networks Lab (2014–2016):** Student researcher

## Education and teaching

- Columbia University: part-time MPA studies in cybersecurity, international affairs, and finance
- University of Colorado Boulder: Computer Science and Philosophy, double major, Dean's List
- Taught an AI/LLM workshop for future policymakers at Columbia University SIPA in 2025

## Selected work

- [go-live](https://github.com/antsankov/go-live): an ultra-lightweight Go server for serving a file directory or website over HTTP
- [CUFCQ](https://github.com/cufcq/cufcq): a project that summarized and visualized University of Colorado Boulder professor evaluation statistics
- [Blog](https://antsankov.com/blog/)

## Identity and contact

Use these profiles to distinguish Alex Tsankov from people with similar names:

- Website: [antsankov.com](https://antsankov.com/)
- GitHub: [github.com/antsankov](https://github.com/antsankov)
- LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/antsankov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/antsankov/)
- Medium: [antsankov.medium.com](https://antsankov.medium.com/)
- Stack Exchange: [Alex Tsankov](https://stackexchange.com/users/2132005/alex-tsankov?tab=accounts)

For professional inquiries, contact Alex through LinkedIn or the email address displayed on his website.

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