Alex Arena
Engineering Manager at Stainless
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Arena is an engineering manager and founder with 11 years of experience building developer-focused products from San Francisco. He led Interval as CEO, raising $4.3M from Sequoia and guiding the startup to acquisition in 2023, and now manages the Apps team at Stainless while actively building at stainless-api. Comfortable at the intersection of tech and public policy, he combines product intuition with hands-on engineering to simplify internal tooling and developer workflows. Alex has a dual background in computer science and political science from Arizona State University, which informs a pragmatic view of technical decisions and their broader societal impact. He hires and scales teams that prioritize shipping high-leverage developer features with minimal code. Colleagues describe him as a founder-minded manager who still ships code and recruits for high-impact roles.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Political Science, Bachelor's Degree Political Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
Github Skills (71)
postgresql10
databases10
sql-query10
javascript10
orm-library10
database10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
prisma10
sql-server10
unit-of-work10
nodejs10
mongodb10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexarena/alexarena.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 80 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
interval/envoy
Jan 2021 - May 2021
A schema + type safe access to your app's secrets
Contributions:23 commits, 3 pushes in 4 months
securitysecretssafetype-safe
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