Alex Lewin possesses expertise in perl, start ups, linux, web development, scalability and 26 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "If you are putting together a startup, you need more than regular software engineers. Your ideal candidate will be of course capable of the nominal task -- designing software, but he will have to perform many other tasks for which the right people have not yet been hired, from architecting networks to administering machines and answering technical questions. If that's what you need, give Alex a call; he is your man. Not only does Alex bring skills of a flexible and seasoned software engineer, when times get tough and people run on reserves his great sense of humor always keeps the office in a positive and uplifting mood. I got to see Alex in action while working with him at Kendal Square Research; I later brought him to PowerOpen to work in my group, and if I was starting a web project or a company I would definitely hire him again." and "Alex was one of the early engineers of Viaweb (which was acquired and later became Yahoo! Store) and was the most widely knowledge-able expert and guru about every aspect of a rather intricate and complex Yahoo Store architecture and codebase. I collaborated closely with Alex while working on improving aspects of the scalability, robustness and improving uptime for Yahoo Store and the millions of transactions handled by the distributed platform. His cheerfulness, professionalism and work ethic were unmatched and it was a true pleasure to work with him. The codebase was equal parts C, C++, and Perl and he was equally facile and expert with all of them. His systems engineering skills and Perl scripting was peerless. He was truly one of the best engineers at Yahoo!"