Summary
Alejandro Carrera is a software engineer with nine years of experience building backend systems and integrations across healthcare and large-scale consumer platforms, currently contributing at Meta after prior engineering roles at Amazon and D2L. He brings deep Java and systems experience—DICOM/HL7 integrations, CI/CD automation (Puppet), and database-backed services—from projects at Agfa HealthCare and enterprise insurance systems. Comfortable in both Scrum and Kanban environments, he has led testing and deployment improvements that materially reduced testing time and operational errors. A McMaster-trained electrical and biomedical engineer, Alejandro combines hardware-savvy problem solving with production software rigor, and has a track record of pragmatic automation and cross-team CI initiatives that improve developer velocity.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at McMaster University
English, Spanish