Alec Ashford
DevOps Engineer at Rakuten
San Leandro, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Ashford is a DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience building and streamlining delivery pipelines for large-scale web applications, currently shaping platform reliability at Rakuten. He combines a software engineering background with consulting and project management chops to design user-friendly automation that reduces time and cost—having led efforts that cut build and release overheads by over 50%. Comfortable across CI/CD, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS, and load testing with Locust, he mentors teams and provides technical design guidance to internal customers. Earlier roles at Heap and Energy Solutions show a hands-on blend of systems administration, ETL/Redshift work, and product-focused engineering that enabled key renewals and custom client deployments. Alec’s career reflects a practical obsession with turning manual processes into intuitive, auditable pipelines that improve QA and operational visibility. Based in San Leandro, he pairs a liberal-arts BA with immersive coding bootcamp training—bringing both communication strengths and technical depth to cross-functional problems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BUS ADM X448 - Introduction to High-Tech Product Management and Marketing, BUS ADM X448 - Introduction to High-Tech Product Management and Marketing at University of California, BerkeleyThe original coding bootcamp, The original coding bootcamp at Dev BootcampB.A. History Politics minor, B.A. History Politics minor at Willamette University
Github Skills (20)
bootstrap4
aws3
javascript3
finance3
finance-management3
terraform2
ruby2
kubernetes-cluster2
anonymous2
message-board2
kubernetes2
terraform-module2
ionic-framework2
kubeadm1
ionic1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alecashford/house_keeper
Jul 2014 - Jun 2019
Household finance management app. Ruby and JavaScript
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 11 months
javascriptrubyapp-managementfinance-managementfinance
alecashford/vexilology_chrome_extension
Sep 2014 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 6 years 5 months
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