Summary
Alex Chamberlain is a Software Configuration Management Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience ensuring software quality across large-scale and startup environments. Based in Oregon, he has maintained CI systems and administered Linux fleets for open-source Big Data projects at Intel, leveraging AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Puppet, Python, and Go. His background spans QA leadership, test automation, and exploratory testing—having built regression and performance tooling for microservices and authored extensive automated suites at Puppet and InVision. Alex brings a practical jack-of-all-trades mindset: comfortable writing maintenance scripts, designing test infrastructure, mentoring teams, and translating ambiguous requirements into reliable systems. He combines formal training in computer science and philosophy with early experience in systems and kernel-level work, which gives him a rare blend of analytical rigor and low-level systems fluency. Notably, his Perl and Ruby tooling once exposed long-hidden bugs in production components, illustrating his knack for finding latent quality risks.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, 3.7 GPA, BS, Computer Science, 3.7 GPA at Portland State University
Carleton College
Certificate, Public Accounting, 3.9 GPA, Certificate, Public Accounting, 3.9 GPA at Washington State University