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Alexey Kalinichenko

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Founder at StepMobile

San Francisco Bay Area

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About

Alexey Kalinichenko is Co-Founder and CTO at Step Mobile. He previously served as CTO at Token, Engineering Manager and Software Architect at Square, and an engineer at Google. His work has covered payments and online transaction processing, real-time collaborative software, real-time communications, voice over IP, and networking.

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StepMobile's investors · 19

3cubed VenturesSan FranciscoA-Rod CorpMiamiAnimal CapitalRaleigh · $100K – $1M checksBlumberg CapitalMiami · $500K – $5M checks · since 2025Breyer CapitalAustin · $500K – $10M checksCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks · since 2021Collaborative FundNew York · $500K – $1M checksCrosslink CapitalMenlo Park · $1M – $9M checks · since 2019Dreamers VCEl Segundo · $500K – $5M checks · since 2021Franklin TempletonSan Mateo · since 2021General CatalystSan Francisco · $30M checks · since 2021Gradient VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025Jared Letosince 2021Kombo VenturesLos AngelesMantis CapitalSanta Monica · $100K – $1M checks · since 2021Next Legacy PartnersPortola ValleySocially FinancedChatham · $100K – $250K checksStripesince 2021WndrCoRedwood City · $100K – $10M checks · since 2021

Co-founders at StepMobile

CMCJ MacDonald
CJ MacDonaldFounder

Experience

  1. Step MobileCo-Founder and CTOcurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Token, Inc.CTO2016 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  3. Square Inc.Senior Staff Software Engineer/Tech Lead/Engineering Manager2011 — 2016San Francisco Bay Area
  4. GoogleSoftware Engineer2007 — 2011
  5. MicrosoftSoftware Design Engineer2000 — 2006
  6. Syracuse UniversityResearch Assistant1998 — 2000

Skills & more

Java26MapReduce5Software Design21Architecture4OOP2Scalability4JUnit3Software Engineering10Algorithms3Unit Testing2C#2REST2
+12 moreDistributed SystemsObject Oriented DesignDebuggingSOAOS XAgile MethodologiesiOS development.NETSpringJavaScriptLinuxSQL

Languages English · Russian

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Who is Alexey Kalinichenko?
Alexey Kalinichenko is Co-Founder and CTO at Step Mobile. He previously served as CTO at Token, Engineering Manager and Software Architect at Square, and an engineer at Google. His work has covered payments and online transaction processing, real-time collaborative software, real-time communications, voice over IP, and networking.
Where does Alexey Kalinichenko work?
Alexey Kalinichenko is Founder of StepMobile.
What companies did Alexey Kalinichenko found?
Alexey Kalinichenko founded StepMobile.
Where did Alexey Kalinichenko go to school?
Alexey Kalinichenko studied at Syracuse University (Masters, Computer Engineering).

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