About

Alex Elentukh is an accomplished computer scientist, entrepreneur and educator.
- Held positions of QA Director at two successful start-ups, Jupiter and Reveal.
- At Dell EMC, as an Agile coach, introduced the backlog grooming to improve collaboration between product owners and engineering.
- As an enterprise architect at Fidelity, managed the regression-intensive verification used by multiple scrums, cutting the field complaint rate by fifty percent.
- At Draper Labs and Akamai harmonized ISO and CMMI frameworks into the team-level Agile practice of a consistent delivery pipeline.
- Published several dozen papers and taught software engineering and quality management courses at Northeastern and Boston University.
- Published the original IEEE 1994 paper "System Reliability Policy at Motorola" that laid foundation for a successful company program and industry-wide movement.
- Registered the 2019 copyright for a AWS app ILP (Interactive Learning Platform) to dramatically improve the effectiveness of on-line knowledge transfer.
- Maintained repository of 100 software projects completed during BU coursework. Traveled to Jakarta, along with a team of students, to present the implementation a project at CITSM 2018 conference. Presented the paper "Improving Teaching and Learning Effectiveness of Computer Science Courses" at CSECS2019 conference in Germany. This paper summarizes experience of teaching BU MET CS courses over the period of five years.