Alex Maghen
Digital Entertainment & Consumer Technology Executive,
Organizational Leader
About Me
With a rich history of senior leadership positions in large companies and successful startups, I have a passion for digital products in the consumer and B2B space. Over the years I’ve built and managed highly effective and diverse technology organizations that share that passion for moving fast, being scrappy, and doing amazing things together.
Despite many years of senior management, I pride myself on continuing to be a talented and updated software engineer and architect, product leader and tech-oriented dealmaker. Over the past 3 years I have also developed extensive AI integrations both at Warner Media and in my recent startup.
More than anything else, I take pride in creating cultures of:
- Profound Curiosity
- Passion for Product & Creativity
- Tight Relationships Inside and Outside the Technology Group
- Decency, Kindness, and Support
- And yes, apparently, I have a tendency to say “Yes, but FASTER!”
Some of my stuff…
- Warner Media: SVP Digital Product, Platforms & Engineering and Head of Enterprise Architecture
- CTO, MTV Networks
- CTO Grindr
- CTO Yahoo Entertainment
Specialties
- Consumer Digital Product, Product Strategy, Development
- Application & Systems Architecture for High-Scale/High-Availability Digital Media Applications
- AI-Driven Integrations for Moderation, Content Creation
- Third-Party Technology Deals and Integrations
- Large Technology Organizational Development and Management
- Product Strategy & Roadmap Development
- Regulatory Compliance: Global Copyright, Privacy, Reporting, etc.
- Analytics
- Creative Technology – Bridging the Technology Gap with Business and Creative
- Development of highly diverse (award-winningly diverse, actually) organizations
- Multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, Google)
- AI integrations and implementations.
- Fast prototyping and consumer testing
- Native and react mobile development
- Large-portfolio systems operation
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Coding is about precision. Natural language is not. Coding assistance from AI platforms is brilliant – an incredible thing. End-to-end project development using AI seems quite another. While these platforms are capable of building something “complete,” the amount of English-language “definition” that goes into getting something out the other and that even approximates your goals…
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AI Coding Platforms like Microsoft’s CoPilot, Google’s Vertex, Chat GPT, and many others have achieved incredible things assisting software developers as they code and even building complete software solutions based on requests from relatively low-tech users. The stuff is amazing. As a senior tech manager how should you use it? How should you not? What…
