Alex Ani.

About Alex Ani.

Dr. A is a PLAYER-COACH CUSTOMER-OBSESSED AWARD WINNING SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT and PRODUCT ENGINEERING LEADER with a proven track record of architecting, designing, building, deploying and securing large-scale distributed systems across hybrid cloud environments. With expertise in modern software engineering practices, AI, data science and hands-on experience in native Cloud and Edge solutions, computer vision, generative AI, etc, Alex has contributed to Microsoft work helping strategic customers and partners build ISV products, scale their businesses while leveraging the latest and greatest Microsoft technologies. Alex has been leading Co-Engineering and Co-Innovation engagements with Microsoft\'s largest customers in AI/ML, Robotics and Industry domains such as NVIDIA, Ecolab, Comcast, Nike, AEG Worldwide, Chevron, Cracker Barrel, Chobani, Universal Studios, US DoD, UK MoD, NATO, Macys, Hexagon, Suncor, etc. as a part of ISE group at Microsoft. Recent highlights include contributing to collaboration efforts with NVIDIA in building RobotOps platform for AI and Robotics at scale, NVIDIA OVC deployment on Azure and building Digital Twin environments for AI/ML and Robotics (RL, SDG, etc.) workloads leveraging NVIDIA GPU\'s fleet (L4/L40, H100, A100, Jetson Orins for edge inference, etc.) using IsaacSim and IsaacLab with AI/MLOps, DevSecOps and GitOps practices. Also recently Alex led the secure architecture and large-scale project development of an end-to-end CV inference pipeline — complete with MLOps, DevSecOps, and GitOps on the backend — for a major Microsoft industry partner, Ecolab, seamlessly integrating hybrid cloud strategies to build an AI-powered QSR Operations Optimization solution serving millions of customers worldwide.As a part of Microsoft ISE Co-Engineering and Co-Innovation methodology Alex has experience leading full SDLC starting from stakeholder alignment and requirements gathering, through rapid prototyping and continuous business validation, joint development (R&D) with involved industry partners and all the way to initial deployment, support and iterations of refinements afterwards based on business outcomes.For a deeper look at Alex’s insights and innovations, explore his LinkedIn profile Medium articles https://medium.com/@alexanikiev, and GitHub projects https://github.com/alexanikiev, where he continues to push the boundaries of distributed systems, AI-driven solutions, and secure enterprise technology.#Roles: Customer-first Solutions Architect, Engineering Leader

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager & Architect, Mission Software Engineering, Edge Ai, Compute & Comms

   Anduril Industries

   Sep 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Punchline: My team and I love solving hard problems for what matters the most!Principal Software Engineering Lead working on distributed, decentralized and dis/connected mission critical software for autonomous systems (AV & robotics) and Physical AI at scale across Cloud and DDIL Edge.Observability/monitoring, telemetry and control flows for autonomous Menace systems as a part of Lattice Mesh networks across premises.Designing and building data centers for modern GPU/CPU intense AI workloads on the Edge. Driving SWAP down and optimizing pound for pound efficiency for compute and power management. The team have been contributing to Anduril’s most strategic initiatives building and operationalizing Menace systems (including brand NEW variants from sketch to production) enabling missions (not possible before) and bringing $$ millions to the company to continue growing fast.Leading a team of Product Software, Mission Software and System Engineers, building products in collaboration with Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, Growth, etc. and deploying products in the field with our most strategic customers around the world. The team developed and adopted As a world-class SI partnering with the best in the world makers of AI accelerators (CPU/GPU/NPU/FPGA), data center compute (all up) and networking solutions (SDWAN) to build state of the art next gen autonomy.

Education

• National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'​

  PhD in Information Technology, Applied Mathematics, Computer Networking

  2006 — 2011

• National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'​

  Master in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Computer Networking

  1999 — 2005

Skills

• Financials
• Sharepoint
• Software Implementation
• Sql Server Reporting Services (Ssrs)
• Ssis
• Software Design
• Software Quality Assurance
• Dynamics
• System Architecture
• Ssrs
• Web Services
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Tfs
• Business Analysis
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Microsoft Dynamics Crm
• Axapta
• Requirements Analysis
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Xml
• Database Design
• Software Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Biztalk
• Architecture
• Wcf
• Lean Transformation
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Microsoft Crm
• Pre-Sales
• T-Sql
• X++
• Solution Architecture
• Programming