Alex Bertsch
Head Of Product at Doppel
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Bertsch is a product leader with 12 years of hands-on software and security experience, currently serving as Head of Product at Doppel where he focuses on outsmarting social engineering. He moved up from engineering roles at Dropbox—where he built security automation and contributed to open-source alerting tools—to product leadership at Twingate and trust-and-safety work at Pinterest, bridging technical depth with risk-focused product strategy. Alex excels at turning complex security and abuse problems into intuitive, enterprise-ready products, having led multiple 0-to-1 expansions and platform initiatives. Comfortable shipping code and shaping roadmaps, he brings a rare combination of backend engineering chops (including Splunk integrations for distributed alerting) and product leadership grounded in real operational experience. Based in San Francisco, he pairs rigorous CS training from Brown with a pragmatic focus on measurable safety outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Economics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brown University
English
Github Skills (9)
splunk10
python10
security10
apidoc9
api9
unit-testing8
sql7
javascript7
front-end-development6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/securitybot
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Distributed alerting for the masses!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:12 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex contributed significantly to the `securitybot` project by implementing Splunk integration features, including the development of scripts for sending alerts and performing lookups. They added new files related to Splunk, including configuration and a launcher script. Further contributions include adding a new frontend with various features, as well as implementing unit tests and making changes to the main and frontend files.
alertingmonitoringdistributedbotduo
lxbrtsch/yara-python
Aug 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 7 years 6 months
python-interfacepythonyara
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