Alex Orlov

Energizer
DISC Type : I

Senior Manager, SRE / Engineering Excellence at Samsung Ads

Menlo Park, California, United States

Overview

Alex Orlov is an engineering leader with extensive experience building scalable products in cloud environments, particularly AWS. He has a background in industries like AI, Ad Tech, and Wellness, and holds an MS from Tomsk Polytechnic University. Colleagues describe him as dedicated, skilled, supportive, and intellectually curious.

There is no publicly available information about Alexs personal life or interests outside of his professional career.

As a security engineer at Appen, he developed a "20-point inspection, " a rapid security assessment methodology to be applied to each microservice.

Personality Overview

Informal

Believer

Imaginative

They are friendly, approachable and love to make new connections.  They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They are really good at seeing what the long-term impacts of their decisions could be.

Topics They Care About

Cloud Security
Drives security best practices in AWS, including managing IAM roles to least privilege, mitigating vulnerabilities, and implementing HIPAA requirements in past roles.
Engineering Excellence
Focuses on initiatives to improve engineering team performance in reliability, quality, incident management, cost control, and developer productivity at Samsung Ads.
Team Leadership
Manages teams with a foundation of trust and respect, striving to be an enabler for the people he works with and acting as a supportive manager.

Media Appearances

Alex has no verified media appearances

Work History

6-2023
Senior Manager, SRE / Engineering Excellence at Samsung Ads
1-2022 - 5-2023
Sr. Engineering Manager at Appen
3-2020 - 5-2023
Security Engineer at Appen
12-2018 - 3-2020
Security Lead at Viome
2-2018 - 3-2020
Staff Software Engineer at Viome

Education

1987 - 1995
MS from Tomsk Polytechnic University

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Insights For Selling To Alex

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Use adjectives like ‘amazing’, ‘coolest’, ‘unbelievable’ etc.
  • Share some stories about how you you have helped people in similar positions succeed
  • Talk about their team and how your product will help them do things better and easier

DONT's

  • Avoid ifs and buts, don’t talk too much about the risks etc.
  • Don’t assume a yes just because they have not said no
  • Don’t push them to make a decision too fast, let them get comfortable first

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Alex is

  • Relationship and rapport can play an important role, sometimes more than the other factors.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Alex

  • They will probably never say no directly, you have to make that decision yourself.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Alex move?

  • They are not the quickest decision makers, their friendly attitude could be misleading.
  • Can Alex take some risk or not?

  • They may take certain risks that they deem unlikely of personal repercussions.

You And Alex

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