Alex Shopov is a full-stack Principal Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team at CarGurus. He has been writing code almost since he could read, and has worked across the technology gamut from low-level assembly to cloud-based micro services. He is a co-recipient of the 2006 Innovative Technical Achievement Sports Emmy for his work developing on-air graphics for CBS Sports, and moonlights as a teaching assistant for several foundational Computer Science classes at the Harvard Extension School. 

As an athletic nerd, Alex enjoys spending his free time coding, playing video games, running, and competing in powerlifting.