Director of Engineering · VP of Engineering · Senior TPM
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Alex Kosachov

Director of Engineering · Engineering Leadership for Complex Platforms

Translator between business reality and technical possibility — builds the organizations, platforms, and delivery systems that turn business goals into measurable outcomes.

17 years at SCG Global — from lead developer to CTO — building an 8-product maritime enterprise platform from zero. Scaled the engineering team to 12, delivering scope comparable to competitor platforms running 40+. The platform serves real people at real scale: 82,666 seafarers, 27 vessels, $226.7M in cumulative fleet operations — 92 production releases, zero data loss, zero Port State Control detentions, Bureau Veritas certified. Now fully focused on contributing that depth to the Canadian technology ecosystem.

Canadian Permanent Resident · Fredericton, NB · Remote across Canada

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17yrs

at SCG Global

Integrated products

Vessels managed

$226.7M

Reconciled

Platform at a Glance — March 2026

Vessels managed (lifetime) 27 commercial · 9 active

Maintenance events logged 2,111,584

Fleet operations tracked $226.7M

Seafarer records 82,000+

Production releases 92 · 0 data loss

PSC Detentions 0

Cumulative fleet capacity 1,150,000+ DWT

RightShip Safety Rating 5 / 5 · A-Series fleet

⚓ Bureau Veritas Certified · ISO 9001 · USCG QUALSHIP 21

Leadership Profile

Alex Kosachov · Fredericton, NB

17 Years. One Platform. One Engineering Organization.

In 2009, Alex joined SCG Global as its first software engineer and spent 17 years building what became an 8-product integrated enterprise platform — and the engineering organization that delivered it.

The challenge was not just technical. Commercial vessels operate with intermittent connectivity, face Port State Control inspection, and cannot afford downtime. Every platform and team decision reflected those constraints: offline-first architecture, legal-grade audit trails, a Kafka-based integration backbone that decoupled 8 products before there were 8 products to decouple, and a Bureau Veritas certification audit that Alex personally led and passed.

The engineering challenge had a particular shape: building a team that could sustain delivery through three complete rotations without disruption, scaling from a single product to an 8-product platform, and directing a complete AWS infrastructure relocation from on-premise Ukraine during active wartime operations — with 100% operational continuity and zero client loss.

For 17 years, Alex owned both the platform and the organization. The role titles changed — Lead Developer, Director of Engineering, Chief Technology Officer. The mandate — building systems and teams that deliver under real-world constraints — didn't.

Alex is a Permanent Resident of Canada, based in Fredericton, NB, and available remotely across Canada.

July 2009

Lead Developer & Architect

Built Shipvisor™ PMS from a blank repository. Designed the canonical data model, backward-compatible API contract, and offline-first replication pattern that govern every vessel-side product to this day.

2014

Director of Engineering / Head of Engineering

Expanded from single-product PMS to multi-domain platform. Defined cross-product schema standards, event patterns, and canonical models across Finvisor™, Crewisor™, Heatech, Invisor, E-SCMS. Personally led the Bureau Veritas classification audit.

May 2019 – Present

CTO / Director of Engineering

Full engineering ownership across 8 products and the team that delivers them: platform architecture, Kafka Exchange decoupling, multi-database sovereignty, cost optimization, AI/GenAI enablement, delivery governance. Added DaX (Jan 2026) and Sellwisor (Mar 2025). Led 2022 wartime AWS infrastructure relocation.

Alex Kosachov · Fredericton, NB

$226.7M

Cumulative fleet operations tracked (Finvisor™, verified)

2,111,584

Completed maintenance events logged

82K+

Seafarer records in Crewisor™

Production releases · 0 data loss · 0 PSC detentions

70+

Repositories across 8 products

Years at SCG Global · 3 team rotations sustained

Bureau Veritas

Classification society certification for Shipvisor™ PMS · ISO 9001 · 5/5 RightShip rating

PSC vessel detentions attributable to platform failure

Case Studies

8 Products. Every One Built From Scratch.

Click any card to read the full case study — architecture highlights, production metrics, Alex's role, and the technology stack.

Fleet Maintenance · PMS ● Active

Shipvisor™ PMS

Built from zero: 2.1M maintenance events, 597K+ spare parts, Bureau Veritas certified. Foundation of the entire platform.

Maintenance events logged 2,111,584

Spare parts entries 597,661

Vessels (lifetime) 27

Ruby on Rails MySQL React SymmetricDS Kafka

2009 – Present · 15 years View case study →

Financial ERP ● Active

Finvisor™

$226.7M in cumulative fleet operations tracked. 56,558 invoices. 1.44M immutable audit trail entries.

Fleet operations tracked $226.7M

Invoices processed 56,558

Audit trail entries 1,445,063

Rails GraphQL Kafka Elasticsearch PaperTrail

~2016 – Present View case study →

Crew Management ● Active

Crewisor™

82,000+ seafarers. 34,484 vessels in database. Zero-downtime 2-year migration from legacy Clarion system.

Seafarer records 82,000+

Vessel database 34,484

AI CVs processed 2,056

Rails Elasticsearch SQL Server OpenAI API Kafka

2015 – Present · 10 years View case study →

Procurement · Catalogue ● Active

Invisor

1.17M catalogue placements. 3.17M sync deliveries. 5-minute push to 27 vessel databases via RabbitMQ.

Fleet catalogue placements 1,168,812

Sync deliveries since Jul 2024 3,165,963

Unique article identities 51,419

Rails RabbitMQ Kafka ActiveAdmin Sidekiq

~2016 – Present · Director of Engineering View case study →

Safety & Compliance · ISM · ISPS · MLC 2006 ● Active

E-SCMS

ISM Code SMS distribution across 17 vessels. 8+ years. Built solo by Alex — the only platform product he implemented personally end-to-end.

Regulatory framework ISM · ISPS · MLC 2006 · ISO 9001:2015

Fleet deployment 17 vessels

Production lifetime 8+ years

Adobe Acrobat iOra GeoReplication rsync Starlink / VSAT

~2015 – Present · Document Replication Pipeline · Director of Engineering View case study →

Vessel Analytics · Completed ◎ Succeeded by DaX

Heatech / T19

AES-256-CBC encrypted vessel analytics. 11.2 years. 5,604 reports processed. Data files used as evidence in a legal dispute.

Fuel consumption tracked 501,726 MT

Nautical miles logged 4,726,543 NM

Security incidents Zero (11+ years)

Rails 3.2 AngularJS 1.0 Node.js nw.js AES-256-CBC Grunt.js crypto-js

2014 – Feb 2026 · Solo implementer · Succeeded by DaX View case study →

Vessel Analytics · New ● Active — Jan 2026

DaX

Heatech's modern successor. Rails 7 / React 18 / Kafka. 2,404 events at 99.9% across 11 vessels and 141 global ports.

Submitted events 2,404 (99.9%)

Global ports visited 141

Data domains 13+ (vs. 1 in Heatech)

Rails 7 React 18 Kafka Docker EU ETS

2025 – Present · Full cutover Feb 28, 2026 View case study →

Supplier Portal · External ● Active — Mar 2025

Sellwisor

The product that closes the loop. First SCG platform product accessible to external parties — 401 suppliers, $32M procurement activity in year one.

RFQs distributed 17,731

Supplier companies 401

Procurement activity ~$32M

Rails 7 React 18 Kafka Pundit MUI v5

Mar 2025 – Present · CTO + Product Owner View case study →

What Makes This Remarkable

The Record Behind the Platform

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Built by a Team of Under 12

          Comparable maritime PMS platforms — AMOS, ShipManager, Helm CONNECT — are developed by organisations of 40+ people. Shipvisor™ and the full SCG Global platform were built and operated by a team that never exceeded 12, and managed the same operational scope with superior reliability metrics.
        
<12 engineers · 8 products · 70+ repositories

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Three Team Rotations, Zero Disruption

          Over 17 years, the engineering team turned over three complete times. In each transition, Alex personally closed the technical gaps — stepping back into hands-on development while identifying and growing replacement talent. The platform never stopped shipping. 92 releases, zero data loss.
        
92 releases · 0 data loss · 0 PSC detentions

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Wartime Infrastructure Relocation

          In 2022, with the engineering team in Ukraine, Alex directed a complete migration from on-premise systems to AWS during active wartime operations. Starlink terminals and backup power deployed for all team members. The platform maintained 100% operational continuity. Fleet operations were not affected.
        
100% uptime · 2022 Ukraine wartime operations

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10+ Years of Unbroken Data Integrity

          The oldest maintenance job in the Shipvisor™ production database dates to September 2014. Every record since — across 2,111,584 maintenance events, 597,661 spare parts entries, and $226.7M in financial operations — is intact. No record has been lost through a release, migration, team rotation, or wartime move.
        
2,111,584 maintenance events · 0 lost records

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Bureau Veritas Certified & PhD Validated

          Alex personally led the Bureau Veritas audit and certification of Shipvisor™ PMS — presenting the system to classification society auditors. Heatech's vessel performance analytics were formally recognised by a PhD maritime researcher as "one of the most comprehensive and correct implementations of its kind."
        
BV Certified · ISO 9001 · PhD recommendation

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Legal-Grade Data Integrity by Design

          Heatech's AES-256-CBC encrypted vessel data files — operational for 11+ years — were later admitted as evidence in a legal dispute involving vessel performance data. This was an emergent outcome of a consistent commitment to cryptographic data integrity from day one. Not planned. Just built correctly.
        
5,604 encrypted reports · Zero security incidents · Legal evidence

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Recognized Across Every Major Port Jurisdiction

          The fleet holds USCG QUALSHIP 21 recognition from the U.S. Coast Guard and is rated "High Performance Company" by both the Paris MoU and Tokyo MoU — the two principal Port State Control bodies covering Europe, North America, and the Asia-Pacific. This status is earned through independently inspected operational excellence, not self-declared. The platform Alex built is a direct operational contributor to maintaining it.
        
USCG QUALSHIP 21 · Paris MoU · Tokyo MoU · 0 PSC detentions

Technology Stack

17 Years of Technology Choices — Evidence, Not Claims

Every technology listed here is evidenced across one or more production codebases. The breadth reflects building 8 products over 17 years — not a keyword list.

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Languages & Frameworks

Ruby on Rails 3–7 React 16–18 JavaScript (ES modules) AngularJS 1.x Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus)

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Databases & Search

MySQL Elasticsearch 6–7 Redis MS SQL Server (TinyTDS) ActiveRecord ORM

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Message Brokers & Streaming

Apache Kafka (Karafka 2.x) RabbitMQ (Bunny / AMQP) Sidekiq 5–7 Event-driven architecture

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Infrastructure & DevOps

AWS EC2 / S3 Docker / Compose Nginx Hetzner (physical) Capistrano GitHub Actions CI/CD Ansible

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API Design

JSONAPI::Resources (JSON:API) GraphQL (graphql-ruby) REST ActionCable (WebSockets)

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Security & Auth

Devise + JWT CanCanCan Pundit AES-256-CBC / AES-128-CBC OpenSSL 2FA

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Audit & Compliance

PaperTrail (event sourcing) active_snapshot ISO 9001 QMS Bureau Veritas certification ISM Code / SOLAS MLC 2006

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Frontend & UI

Material UI v4–5 TailwindCSS TanStack Query v5 Redux / Redux Saga Vite 5 React Hook Form

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AI / GenAI (production)

OpenAI API Production prompt engineering Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) Agentic automation pipelines Jaro-Winkler fuzzy-match GitHub Copilot Claude Code Email document processing pipelines

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Modern Data & Platform Architecture

Databricks Snowflake Delta Lake Apache Iceberg Hudi Lakehouse vs Warehouse OLAP Vector Stores Feature Stores Semantic Layers RAG Pipeline Architecture GenAI Foundations LLM Data Preparation

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Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus (yabeda) ELK / Logstash Rails Performance Google Sheets API (metrics export)

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Distributed Systems & Domain Practices

Offline-first distributed architecture Hybrid real-time / resilient replication (SymmetricDS) Periodically-connected vessel environments Multi-version backward-compatible APIs Legacy system migration (zero-downtime) Maritime regulatory compliance Safety-critical platform operations Multi-tenant SaaS architecture

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Open to the Right Opportunity

Based in Fredericton, NB, Canada. Canadian Permanent Resident. Available immediately. Remote across Canada — open to the right opportunity in any sector where engineering leadership and platform scale matter.

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Director of Engineering · VP of Engineering · Senior TPM · Head of Engineering

17 years building and owning engineering organizations and platforms under real-world constraints — now focused on contributing that depth to the Canadian technology ecosystem.

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Location

Fredericton, NB, Canada · 🇨🇦 Permanent Resident

Roles I'm Well-Suited For

17 years building engineering organizations and platforms at scale — team leadership, delivery governance, and platform architecture under real-world constraints.

Director of Engineering

Engineering organization leadership across multiple teams — hiring, succession, delivery governance, technical roadmapping, cross-functional stakeholder alignment. Greenfield or turnaround mandate preferred.

VP of Engineering

Full engineering org ownership — headcount planning, budget, multi-quarter roadmap, exec communication. Particularly suited to Series B/C companies needing to scale from 20 to 80+ engineers.

Senior / Principal Technical Program Manager

Complex multi-team program delivery — dependency management, cross-functional coordination, delivery velocity. Especially relevant at larger Canadian orgs (government digital, financial services, telcos).

Head of Engineering

Director-equivalent at smaller orgs — hands-on leadership mandate, building the engineering culture and delivery foundation from early stage.

Sectors of particular interest: government digital services, education tech, healthcare tech, climate and energy, HR tech, fintech, maritime tech, and mission-driven non-profit technology organizations.

Note on confidentiality: The platform and metrics presented here are shared with Alex's authorisation. Vessel names, specific client details, and internal operational data are deliberately generalised. All metrics are production-verified as of March 2026. Fleet vessels are publicly registered under IMO Company ID 5033921 and independently verifiable via Equasis or MarineTraffic.