My name is Aleksejs Popovs. I usually go by my first name, you can pronounce it like ‘Aleks.’

I am originally from Riga, Latvia, but I moved to the US in 2016. I got a BSc in Mathematics with Computer Science and in Philosophy from MIT in 2020.

Now I live in Pittsburgh, PA, where I am working as a Security Engineer at Figma.

I like riding my bike, mailing things, making silly things out of paper, and buying DRM-free music. I still like computers.

I tried writing a blog but did not get very far despite all of my investment in picking a funny domain and configuring the static site generator. Now I'm trying again on Cohost. Well, we all know how that one went.

I have previously worked at Duolingo, interned at Dropbox and NCC Group, and worked on improving the performance of the open-source zero-knowledge cryptography library libsnark.

If you'd like to say hi, email me at aleksejs@popovs.lv.