
🌵 Product Focus
Alex Pakalniskis (“Paka”) is a product manager who turns early ideas into coordinated roadmaps and shipped solutions. With a background spanning geospatial science and healthcare technology, he now drives enterprise-grade products at Edge & Node, guiding cross-team execution to deliver blockchain-powered data solutions for the financial sector.
🌵 Career Journey
Based in California’s Mojave Desert, Alex began his career flying drones over grasslands to map ecological change. That experience sparked a lasting interest in complex, high-impact datasets. Since then, he has worked on tools and platforms used by healthcare teams, spatial analysts, and web3 developers, helping organizations turn raw data into meaningful insights and production-ready APIs.
🌵 Outside of Work
Alex enjoys:
Spending time with his wife and their two dogs 🐾
Tending to the garden 🌱
Watching documentaries 🎥
Getting caught up in the spectacle of professional wrestling 🤼