Alex Burkey
Senior Software Engineer at TRM Labs
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Burkey is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-native platforms and data pipelines, currently focusing on product security and compliance at TRM Labs. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and is AWS-certified, with a track record of reducing operational risk—e.g., slashing CDN incident resolution times by 95% and stabilizing large-scale ETL workloads. Alex has strong hands-on expertise in AWS services, Terraform, Spark/EMR, Redshift, and containerized deployments, and has driven both cost savings and new revenue through data engineering work. He moves comfortably between infrastructure and application layers, having led zero-downtime infra upgrades across 50+ apps and delivered multi-billion-line log ingestion systems. Based in Littleton, Colorado, he blends enterprise-scale rigor with startup velocity, often surfacing practical optimizations others overlook (like JVM and cluster tuning that dramatically improved batch reliability).
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Virginia TechMaterials Science, Materials Science at Loudoun County Academy of Science
Github Skills (73)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlexBurkey/AlexBurkey.github.io
Sep 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
AlexBurkey/MFAImageBot
May 2020 - Oct 2021
A bot which direct-links numbered images in an album
Contributions:3 releases, 53 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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