Aleksandr Yampolskiy

Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy is a CTO of Cinchcast and BlogTalkRadio where he oversees Engineering, QA, TechOps, Telephony, and Product teams.
Alex helped scale its patented technology to power thousands of hours of audio content each day by world’s leading corporations. Prior to joining Cinchcast, Alex was a Head of Security and Compliance at Gilt Groupe companies, responsible for all aspects of IT infrastructure security, secure application development, and PCI compliance. He built the team from scratch to a team recognized in the news media, serving over 1300 employees. Before that, he has worked at Goldman Sachs, Oracle and Microsoft where he was a lead technologist building large-scale, performant enterprise software focused on IDM, SSO, authentication and authorization.
Aleksandr has been cited in New York Times, ComputerWorld, Observer, and other media. He has a B.A. in Mathematics and Computer Science from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.