Senior Software Engineer at IonQ
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Software Engineer @ Optimizely Application Infrastructure - Led efforts to modernize and overhaul tooling, CI/CD, product features, and frameworks for Monolithic Python2.7 Google App Engine Standard web application. From August 2014 to July 2015 (1 year) Senior Software Engineer @ Jawbone Internal tools developer for custom python web stack and build tooling for internal application and API...
Software Engineer @ Optimizely Application Infrastructure - Led efforts to modernize and overhaul tooling, CI/CD, product features, and frameworks for Monolithic Python2.7 Google App Engine Standard web application. From August 2014 to July 2015 (1 year) Senior Software Engineer @ Jawbone Internal tools developer for custom python web stack and build tooling for internal application and API platform. From May 2012 to August 2014 (2 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Developer @ HireIQ Solutions Designed and maintained various modules for a widely deployed Django based web application. From May 2011 to May 2012 (1 year 1 month) Alpharetta, GASoftware Developer @ Georgia Tech Research Institute Built features for Java/Struts based Document and User Database web applications. From June 2008 to May 2011 (3 years) Co-op Software Developer @ Autodesk Worked with .NET 1 frameworks and associated technologies (ASP, MSSQL, etc) in order to support and maintain a .NET based Construction Cost-Management Web Application. From 2007 to 2007 (less than a year) Senior Software Engineer @ IonQ Inc. Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Optimizely Automation & CI/CD:- Migrated a legacy CI/CD pipeline for GAE deployment from self-hosted custom systems to AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild.- Drove efforts to build and shape a scalable product application platform at Optimizely.Application Infrastructure:- Led efforts to migrate heavily relational data from Google Cloud Datastore to Google Cloud SQL (MySQL).- Contributed to introduction and spread of terraform and general IaC at Optimizely. From November 2018 to January 2020 (1 year 3 months) Staff Software Engineer @ Optimizely Engineering Leadership:- Team Lead for the Backend Infrastructure team-- worked with Product and Engineering Management and Leaders across the org to discover, prioritize, and lead a backlog of multiple cross-functional infrastructural initiatives (including migration and modernization programs).- Contributed and led multiple internal Communities of Practice to help establish conventions, paradigms, and alignment around technologies, development patterns, general systems architecture, etc. across engineering.Application Development:- Introduced MySQL to Optimizely X data architecture, extended SQLAlchemy to provide tooling for MySQL application support in legacy python webapp2-based apps.- Designed and implemented in-house Disaster Recovery web service/API to facilitate backup and full/partial restore of Optimizely's customer data for business critical applications. DevOps/SRE-lite: - Contributed to improving and modernizing the CI/CD for Optimizely X Monolithic Python application.- Skunk works: Designed and architected internal micro-services application and automation framework. From July 2016 to November 2018 (2 years 5 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Optimizely Internal Tools - Introduced Docker/Docker Compose to local development tooling, accelerating developer productivity/velocity.Platform Services - Worked with DevOps team to implement PCI controls and compliance in AWS. Built out EC2-based Platform AMIs for minimal platform web services.Application Backend - Co-authored Python3 asyncio-based internal REST API Gateway, contributed to the launch and roll-out of Optimizely's V2 REST APIs onto EC2. From July 2015 to July 2016 (1 year 1 month)
Optimizely
Software Engineer
August 2014 to July 2015
Jawbone
Senior Software Engineer
May 2012 to August 2014
San Francisco Bay Area
HireIQ Solutions
Software Developer
May 2011 to May 2012
Alpharetta, GA
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Software Developer
June 2008 to May 2011
Autodesk
Co-op Software Developer
2007 to 2007
IonQ Inc.
Senior Software Engineer
Optimizely
Senior Staff Software Engineer
November 2018 to January 2020
Optimizely
Staff Software Engineer
July 2016 to November 2018
Optimizely
Senior Software Engineer
July 2015 to July 2016
Application Infrastructure - Led efforts to modernize and overhaul tooling, CI/CD, product features, and frameworks for Monolithic Python2.7 Google App Engine Standard web application. Application Infrastructure - Led efforts to modernize and overhaul tooling, CI/CD, product features, and frameworks for Monolithic Python2.7 Google App Engine Standard web application.
What company does Alex Milstead work for?
Alex Milstead works for Optimizely
What is Alex Milstead's role at Optimizely?
Alex Milstead is Software Engineer
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Alex Milstead works in the Computer Software industry.
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Alex Milstead's colleagues are Brigitte Donner, Peter Parisi, Paul Irving, Claire Vo, Ryan McGredy, Robin Johnson, Liz Calderón, Adam Szakacs, Molly Dallmar, and Mark Costigan
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