Alec Bruns
Sr. Software Engineer at Life360
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Bruns is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience building cloud-native systems and full-stack applications, currently driving backend and platform work at Life360 from the Greater Chicago Area. He is proficient in Java, Node.js and Go and has a track record of delivering production services on AWS, Kubernetes and EKS, plus observability and logging using New Relic and Elasticsearch. Alec has repeatedly led frontend rewrites and mentored engineers—bringing legacy Angular apps to modern, responsive designs while also improving API performance with pagination and backend filtering. He excels at bridging product and engineering needs, having acted as a technical liaison for third-party teams and implemented configuration and admin tooling that empowered non-developers. His blend of hands-on coding, deployment automation, and operational monitoring makes him effective at reducing incident response time and shipping reliable features.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Graduate, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Graduate at Lake Forest College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (43)
vmware9
charts9
helm9
branches8
java8
bitnami8
kubernetes8
redis7
java-client7
redis-client7
release-management7
atlantis6
sre6
golang6
compiler-design6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AlecBruns/csci489Compiler
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 2 months
language-designseniorcustom-languagecompiler-designcompiler
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