Alexander Cook

With six years of engineering management experience, I thrive at the intersection of technical challenges and people development. I focus on building reliable systems while coaching engineers to grow their impact and influence across the organization. My leadership experience spans enterprise healthcare and high-growth startups, giving me a unique perspective on scaling both technology and teams. At an enterprise healthcare company, I honed my focus on customer communication and learned to collaborate across diverse organizations. As a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at a fast-growing startup, I developed 10+ engineers over 3+ years. I promoted one to manager and created multiple tech lead positions to scale team impact. Under my leadership, the team delivered transformational infrastructure improvements. We migrated from third-party to internally hosted telemetry systems, saving $100k+ annually while improving scalability. We also delivered sophisticated software that automated the creation and maintenance of 100+ service dashboards and alerts. Through strategic hiring and internal development, I maintained a high-performing team of engineers who drove the company's reliability mission. I'm looking for my next opportunity in Site Reliability, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering. I'm open to diverse roles, ranging from senior individual contributor to engineering director managing tens of people. I'm drawn to growth and enterprise environments where I can apply my experience building systems and developing talent at scale. I also like to meet new people. If you want to chat, please reach out to [email protected]. Skills: People Management, Go, Rust, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana