Summary
Alex Bahouth is an investor-advisor and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience scaling data, ML, and platform teams at hypergrowth companies including Uber, People Data Labs, and PicnicHealth. He specializes in transforming chaotic technical and organizational problems into reliable, scalable systems—having led data warehouse scaling, ETL and ML-driven promotions, and company-wide performance and promotion reforms affecting thousands of engineers. A builder and coach, Alex has a track record of founding and growing data engineering teams from the ground up and mentoring managers into leadership roles. He favors rapid learning loops over “perfect” execution and is known for pragmatic, cross-functional collaboration across product, data science, and operations. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on systems experience (Vertica, Airflow, Hadoop-era stacks) with investor and advisory roles to help startups navigate technical and go-to-market inflection points.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of California, Davis