Alex Karpovsky

About Alex Karpovsky

My passion is for helping companies bring software to market. This passion coupled with experience has made Kanda a world-class custom software product development company. Kanda has spent 25 years developing commercial products that have brought our customers over $2 billion. Software Product Development is an endeavor entirely distinct from the regular software development outsourcing. We have the ingrained appreciation of time to market, software quality, processes and methodologies and of course unrivaled protection of our clients’ IP. I take personal responsibility for ensuring the success of every project. Having built and managed award-winning products myself, I understand every step. We practice Active Engineering Listening, beginning with fully understanding the vision and business objectives. We discuss, question and offer alternatives, then help translate that vision into architecture, use cases, and development roadmap. We code, test, deploy, monitor and maintain the product.Our people are central to our success - both the US management and production teams in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Our US delivery managers have spent 10-30 years managing engineering in product companies. They truly bring the voice of the customer to each engagement.We recruit and retain excellent PM, BA, development, QA, DevOps and UI personnel. 80% of our technical folks have at least an MS and our attrition rate has always stayed at under 10%. Kanda has been named to the Inc. list of Fastest Growing Companies for the last three years. Our customers come back — and refer others — because we deliver high-quality products that exceed expectations. Kanda is all about risk reduction and faster time to market. 50%-70% of offshore projects fail. Ours get done. If there is no sizable cost for your being late to market, many different providers will suffice; if there is - talk to us!

Experience

1. CEO & Founder

   Kanda Software

   Jan 1992 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Kanda is a software product development company. We reduce time to market for companies that rely on their software to generate revenue. Over the last 25 years we have helped to successfully deliver hundreds of on-premise, SaaS, cloud and mobile applications with a combined revenue for our clients of well over $2 billion.We stand up lean full-stack teams, drawing from our hundreds of business analysts, UX designers, project managers, developers, QA and support engineers, and DevOps. Each team is closely tailored in management structure, composition and methodology to the client’s particular need. Each team is also internally cohesive and constantly monitored by local senior technologists and US-based, seasoned software development managers. Kanda works with startups, independent software vendors, and established companies that rely on software for revenue generation. Many of our clients, such as Sermo, Vlingo and NextAge, are acquired by larger players who continue to work with us. Established companies, like Nuance, Lionbridge and RueLaLa, entrust us with different projects over many years of successful partnerships. Yet others, like RallyPoint, Uptown Networks and College Interactive, grow rapidly while continuing to work with us.Our people are central to our success. We recruit and retain excellent technical and creative people, and have always had an attrition rate of less than 10%. We believe in diversity and apply non-discrimination policies in all of our locations. Over the last decade software product development has been evolving rapidly. The companies that rely on software-driven revenue have had to become more nimble to compete. New technologies, continuous deployment, changing role of QA, evolution in Agile, and new ways to integrate dev and DevOps are just a few examples. Kanda is constantly evolving and retraining our personnel to ensure we will follow the best engineering approach for each of our clients.

Education

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  SM, Management of Technology

  1990 — 1991

• Harvard University

  SB, Physics

  1978 — 1982

Skills

• Mobile Applications
• Javascript
• Web Development
• Business Analysis
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Strategic Partnerships
• Integration
• Software Engineering
• Web Applications
• C#
• .net
• Architectures
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Xml
• Databases
• Outsourcing
• Ruby
• Sql
• Linux
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Distributed Systems
• Quality Assurance
• Entrepreneurship
• Design Patterns
• Architecture
• Start-Ups
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• System Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Leadership
• Big Data
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Sql Server