🌲 Seattle-based Senior Software Engineer | Cloud Architect | Open-Source Advocate 🌲
I'm Alex, a passionate software engineer with a love for architecting scalable cloud solutions, building developer tools, and mentoring the next generation of technologists. Raised in Portland and now rooted in Seattle, I thrive at the intersection of challenging problems and collaborative teamwork.
- 🎓 B.S. Computer Science, University of Washington (2018, Honors)
- 🚀 Currently leading a talented engineering team at CloudSync Solutions
- 🧩 Open-source enthusiast & active mentor for young women in STEM
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- Languages: Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, SQL
- Frameworks/Tools: React, Node.js, Django, Kubernetes, Docker, Git
- Cloud: AWS (Certified Solutions Architect), Google Cloud
- Other: Agile, TDD, System Design
- Spearheading the design and rollout of scalable, multi-region cloud infrastructure supporting millions of global users
- Led cross-functional initiative to optimize streaming reliability, reducing incident rates by 35%
- Mentored engineers on distributed systems and cloud-native best practices
- Tech: Go, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spinnaker
- Lead a team of 5 developing enterprise-grade, cloud-native applications
- Architected a microservices platform — improved system uptime by 30%
- Built CI/CD pipelines reducing deployment times by 40%
- Tech: Python, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
- Developed RESTful APIs powering a web app with 10k+ users
- Optimized DB queries (latency ↓ 25%), enhanced accessibility with UX team
- Tech: JavaScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, React
- netflix-movies-and-tv-shows:
Maintainer of a Python data visualization library (1,000+ ⭐️). - TaskBlox:
Real-time collaborative task manager built with React & Firebase.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (2021)
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (2022)
- 🥾 Hiking the Pacific Northwest trails
- 👩💼 Mentoring young women in STEM
- 🎮 Strategy and puzzle gaming enthusiast
- 🌐 Always learning, always building
- GitHub: ornate-bonzai
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay