Alec Taggart is a Staff Data Engineer with eight years of experience building reliable data and software systems across startups and enterprise teams in the San Francisco Bay Area. He progressed from data engineer to senior and staff roles at Cribl after driving observability and network intelligence work at ThousandEyes (Cisco), pairing production-grade engineering with a practical, hands-on maker mindset. Outside of work he builds and maintains computers, multi-rotor drones, motorcycles, and hobby code—an integrative curiosity that informs pragmatic solutions and rapid prototyping. A University of San Francisco computer science graduate and former co-founder of rpicluster, he brings both tutoring and entrepreneurial experience to mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Summit Prep High School
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of San Francisco
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