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Alex Balvinsky

Content & Social Media Strategist · Tech, B2B, gaming, Web3 & SaaS

Brand Marketing Specialist with 5+ years in fintech, gaming and crypto. I grow communities to thousands of active members organically, provide creative solutions and viral ideas. English, Spanish, Russian.

I know my LLMs. But I am No Meat Proxy.

alex.balvinsky@gmail.com /balvinsky /balva_guy

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Some numbers

>4Mviews in 6 monthsFreedx

+1.3Mviews on XFreedx

>2Morganic viewsEMCD

+150%following growthFreedx

+500%following growthEMCD

+250%weekly active usersEMCD

700korganic reach, full-year target hit in 2 monthsFreedx

Audience growth

Telegram2.5k → 25kEMCD
X650 → 3kEMCD
YouTube0 → 3kEMCD, two channels
LinkedIn2 → 3.5kEMCD
Instagram1k → 7kFreedx
TikTok35 → 1kFreedx
X2k → 3.5kFreedx
Discord & Telegram0 → 3kUbuntu Tribe

Experience

Under NDA Now

Community Lead

Credit Line, Virtual Card, Staking · Jun 2026 – Present · Remote

Rebuilding the socials from the ground up for a virtual card / crypto credit line product
Crisis communication and managing negative sentiment, working with ORM
Creative strategy overhaul and advanced storytelling integration

Freedx

Social Media Manager

Crypto Exchange, Virtual Card · Dec 2025 – May 2026 · Remote

Owned social strategy and content across 8 platforms: scripted and produced short-form video, ran the editorial calendar, and led production end-to-end (multiple 500k+ view TikToks)
Developed a Reddit strategy (0 to 1,000 in the company’s subreddit, fully organic)
Tracked performance against KPIs and iterated weekly, hitting full-year organic reach targets within two months (700k reach, X +540%, TikTok +813%)
Automated content production with AI agents trained on previous organic content and built customizable dashboards and reporting, reducing ticket closure time by 27%
Set up a Discord community and managed multiple AMAs in RU, EN and ES
Directed a videographer, designer and editor: wrote briefs, reviewed output, and held the team to a weekly publishing cadence

Munich Int. Mining

Social Media Manager

Hardware Hosting · Oct 2025 – Dec 2025 · Contract · Remote

Owned cross-platform social strategy and brand voice for 3 brands under one umbrella
Built brand guidelines, ToV and editorial policy, and a visual system in Figma; created an employee branding kit (Telegram emoji, LinkedIn banners)
Built a sustainable content calendar and used AI to recycle content while maintaining high engagement and view rates

Ubuntu Tribe

Community Manager

Gold-Backed Token · Sep 2025 – Feb 2026 · Remote

Grew Discord and Telegram organically from 0 to 3k in a greenfield CIS market
Built a Telegram moderation bot and automated funnels; managed a team of contractors (designers, paid traffic)
Built a moderation system inside Discord with gamification and channel ratings
Drove hundreds of registrations from target geos on minimal budgets through organic methods
Developed an engagement strategy for short-form content, reaching 400k+ organic views
Grew WAU from zero to 300

EMCD Fintech

Lead Social & Community

Hosting, Staking, Virtual Card, P2P, Loans · Sep 2023 – Sep 2025 · Remote

Built and led socials across 5 platforms: owned the editorial calendar, ghostwrote in the founder’s voice and grew presence (Telegram 2.5k to 25k, X 650 to 3k, Instagram 1k to 3k, YouTube 0 to 3k, LinkedIn 2 to 3.5k)
Managed a team of SMM specialists and community managers; ran a content ticketing system handling briefs from 5 product managers on a 1-week production cycle
Created a community growth system and achieved community-owned moderation through gamification and a team of loyal members monitoring the chat (Telegram and Discord)
Launched CIS and global YouTube channels from scratch (Global 0 to 700, CIS 100 to 2k subscribers, 100k+ views in 3 months); built monthly performance reports, ran weekly brainstorms and trend reports, and gathered quarterly competitive analysis
Resolved multiple community crises and kept brand reputation high among members

Manager360 & Dia-Gram

Social & Content Manager

Manager360: AI Platform · Dia-Gram: Social Media · Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 · Remote

Created Tone of Voice and writing policies
Grew the Manager360 community from 100 to 1k; at Dia-Gram, drove 3,000 new app users, +10% daily online and 100k+ organic views
My brand and social work supported 3 major league team signings

Apr Marketing Agency

Community Manager

Gaming · Dec 2021 – Jan 2023 · Remote

Moderated multiple Discord gaming communities
Created a ranking system and gamified the community experience

Portfolio

EMCD: Collab with Notcoin — **Collab with Notcoin**EMCD

EMCD: YouTube launch — **YouTube launch**EMCD

Freedx: X strategy — **X strategy**Freedx

MIM: Strategic overhaul — **Strategic overhaul**MIM

Download full portfolio (PDF, 3.8 MB)

Skills

Community

Community management
Moderation policy & guidelines
Volunteer moderator coordination
Community playbooks
Conflict de-escalation
Crisis communication
Community culture building
Ambassador programs

Content & social

Social media strategy
Content strategy
Editorial calendar
Short-form video
Copywriting
Brand voice
Ghostwriting
Viral marketing

Analytics & feedback

Performance analysis & reporting
KPI tracking
Competitive analysis
User feedback collection
Product feedback synthesis
Google Analytics
Power BI
Sprout Social

AI & automation

AI agents
n8n
Claude
ChatGPT
Telegram bots
Automated funnels
Notion
Figma

Education & certifications

B.S. in PhilosophyHigher School of Economics, Moscow, 2022
Hootsuite Social Marketing2026
Anthropic “Claude 101”2026
Google Digital Marketing & E-Commerce2023
Certified Digital Marketing AssociatePlus 30+ other marketing courses

Let’s grow your brand

Tell me about your product and your audience.

The fastest way to reach me is Telegram.

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