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Alex Strachan

Engineering Leader

United States
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Updated 8 months ago

17+

Years Experience

13

Roles

30

Skills

2

Education

About

Experienced Software Engineer / Architect with a diverse background. Particularly good at data-flow and back-end system design.

Experience (13 roles)

Speakeasy · Full-time

Software Engineer

Speakeasy · Full-time

Jan 2025 - Jun 2025 · 6 mos·San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Designed and lead effort to build AI-powered code generation tool integrated with customers' OpenAPI spec to create suggestions and code snippets aligned with the customer's SDK.

Rippling · Full-time

Staff Software Engineer

Rippling · Full-time

Feb 2023 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs·San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Architect Rippling’s multi-cell region architecture to enable data residency in the EU / Canada. Guide project proposal through product, legal and security review. Advise on engineering as a member of the Office of the CTO Technology Council. Build the cross-region routing framework to automaticall...

accrue · Full-time

Principal Software Engineer

accrue · Full-time

Jul 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos·San Francisco, California, United States

Bringing pricing science to B2B transactions - Accrue is working to help companies discover their worth and grow through accurate, measurable pricing. Accrue helps in two ways: operationally & strategically. We'll help you change your processes to gather high-impact data with our versioned rate ca...

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Education (2)

The Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University

2008 - 2011

Activities and societies: National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Hopkins Wind Ensemble. Complete MSE and BS in Applied Mathematics and Statistics in 3.5 years. Collaborate in designing award winning surgical device. Develop Python metallic micro-structure generator for use in high strain-rate deformation simulation. Develop statistic to describe congressional cooperation from voting records. Help design and build off-road, single seat race car.

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Verona High School

2004 - 2008

Skills (30)

JavaScriptSimulationsJavaScriptPythonNode.jsProject ManagementApplied Mathematicsnode.jsArangoDBBig DataTeachingAnalysisSystem ArchitectureConsultingRPythonDatabase DesignProduct DesignPowershellPostgreSQLStatisticsMathematical ModelingData AnalysisService BusWebpackCloudflareMongoDBReactNode.jsPython
Volunteer Experience (2)

President

Friends of the Golden Gate Park Dog Parks

Mar 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Board Member

Current

Oakland Civic Orchestra

Apr 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

Honors & Awards (6)

Kairos 50

Issued by Kairos Society · Oct 2011

Associated with Branchpoint Technologies Award for the 50 most innovative ventures from around the world created by entrepreneurs under 25.

Hack Day, Best Design

May 2017

Associated with Minted Hack Minted.com into a single page app and re-work product discovery flow. Awarded by CEO Mariam Naficy for "Best Design".

Freshman Design Contest

Issued by JHU Department of Mechanical Engineering · Feb 2008

Associated with The Johns Hopkins University Designed and built winning entry as a member of a 3-man team. Innovative design solution outperformed 16 other entrants in the tournament.

AIME School Winner

Jan 2008

Associated with Verona High School School winner for the American Invitational Math Exam, tied all-time school record.

Dream Team

Issued by Microsoft · Oct 2013

Associated with Microsoft Awarded to critical outage response team for dedication and efficiency during a Tier 1 outage.

Best Team Collaboration, Finalist

Issued by Microsoft · Apr 2014

Associated with Microsoft Top 10 finalist for company-wide award. Cross-divisional, cross-disciplinary team successfully landed challenging engagement. I worked as the deployment lead on site with the customer.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where did Alex Strachan study?
Alex Strachan studied Masters and Bachelors, Applied Mathematics and Statistics at The Johns Hopkins University. They have 2 education entries on their profile.
What skills does Alex Strachan have?
Alex Strachan's top skills include JavaScript, Simulations, JavaScript, Python, Node.js. They have 30 skills listed on their profile.
Where is Alex Strachan based?
Alex Strachan is based in United States.

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