Alec Reynolds
Founder at Switchback Solutions
Auburn, California, United States
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Alec Reynolds is a founder and early-stage technology leader with 13 years of experience scaling consultancies and developer tools into sustainable, revenue-generating businesses. He co-founded and led Lando—an open-source developer experience built on Docker and NodeJS—to over 15K monthly active users and contributed key backend and Elasticsearch integrations to the core repo. Alec has repeatedly built multidisciplinary teams and commercial offerings, securing six-figure sponsorships and recurring contracts while serving HIPAA, insurance, finance, higher education, and nonprofit clients. Technically fluent across NodeJS/Vue, PHP (Laravel/Symfony/Drupal), Python, Bash, Docker, and AWS, he blends hands-on engineering and DevOps with product-led growth. Based in Auburn, California, he now runs Switchback Solutions and sits on Lando’s board, bringing a founder’s instinct for acquisition and funding negotiations as well as a knack for turning developer empathy into widely adopted tooling.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Environmental History, BA, Environmental History at University of California, BerkeleyColfax High School
English
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Github Skills (20)
docker10
develop10
amazon-elasticsearch10
configuration-management10
dockers10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
environment-variables9
nodejs7
drush6
fs6
php6
http6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lando/lando
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
A development tool for all your projects that is fast, easy, powerful and liberating
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 7 reviews, 106 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily contributed to the development of an Elasticsearch service for the Lando platform, including initial setup, configuration, and integration. They added a new Elasticsearch service definition with the ability to configure versions, port forwarding, and volumes. They also worked on integrating the service into the overall Lando system by adding it to the bootstrap and including example applications. Furthermore, they focused on establishing environmental variables and custom configurations for the service.
dotnetpythonwordpressphpjavascript
lando/symfony
May 2022 - Feb 2023
The Official Symfony Lando Plugin
Contributions:15 releases, 4 reviews, 6 commits in 9 months
lando-servicebundlephplando-pluginsymfony-bundle
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