Summary
Alex Brelsford is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and site reliability tooling at Hearsay Systems, where he progressed from intern to senior engineer. A University of Tennessee computer science graduate, he brings a strong systems background from early internships at Oak Ridge National Lab and Denso, coupling cybersecurity and tester-integration experience with production API and user-management work. Comfortable across Python, JavaScript/Node.js, C/C++, PHP and SQL, he gravitates toward problems that lack clear solutions and enjoys projects that expand his technical repertoire. Based in Chattanooga, he pairs pragmatic engineering—debugging tester infrastructure and managing backups—with long-term service reliability and scalable backend design. He tends to surface operational blind spots early, informed by his past roles in network monitoring and IT infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Senior at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English