Alex Drankou

Product Engineer

Building with taste at the intersection of product, design, and engineering.

Side Projects

Locu
Jan 2022 – Present

Daily execution system for software engineers — started as a personal tool, now used by other developers to stay focused and ship consistently.

Ring Widget
2026

Beautiful iOS widgets for Oura Ring data.

TON Address
2025

Raycast extension for converting TON addresses and resolving .ton domains. A better alternative to ton.org/address.

Work

E2B
E2BMay 2026 – Present

Building E2B's user-facing dashboard and product experiences for managing secure cloud sandboxes.

Omnim
OmnimSep 2025 – Dec 2025

Full-stack work across the product — integrations, design system improvements, and internal tooling. Led development of an MVP for marketing strategy generation workflow for a design partner.

TON Foundation
TON FoundationMar 2024 – Aug 2025

Helped scale TON ID Telegram mini-app to 3M+ monthly users and 17M+ soulbound NFTs issued. Led a major database migration, drove performance optimizations that cut infrastructure costs, and shipped "Sign in with TON ID" OAuth.

Productboard
ProductboardFeb 2022 – Jan 2024

Built internal developer portal and tooling to streamline new services deployment from days to hours. Later joined Design Systems team to maintain the unified component library.

RemixAR
RemixARDec 2021 – Jan 2022

Contract work for a US-based product lead. Built an MVP to validate social AR scene sharing and remixing — developed the full AR experience using ARKit.

Quill (via mustafar.dev)
Quill (via mustafar.dev)Apr 2021 – Dec 2021

External agency work on a Slack competitor later acquired by Twitter. Developed third-party integrations and contributed to the public API and Go SDK.

CryptoMood
CryptoMoodOct 2018 – Apr 2021

Built high-performance backend services and NLP pipeline for crypto trading platform. Developed APIs, microservices, and real-time data scrapers.

Inspiration

List of people who inspire me and have influenced how I think and work.

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