Alex Curtis
Director, Technology Infrastructure And CyberSecurity at Benchmark Analytics
Boise, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Curtis is a director-level technology leader specializing in cloud architecture, cloud security, and serverless platforms, with 11 years of experience bridging software development and infrastructure. He leads DevSecOps and infrastructure strategy at Benchmark Analytics, guiding cloud migrations, automation, and security for production systems built on AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB, and Fargate. Originally a marketing technologist, he leverages that background to design observability, tracking, and integration solutions that balance business outcomes with privacy-forward security practices—a pivot he made deliberately in 2016. Alex is also an educator and founder of the DevMarketer network, with content published by Packt and LinkedIn Learning and a community of over 100,000 subscribers and a million collective video views. Comfortable writing PHP, Python, and JavaScript, he combines full‑stack coding chops with hands-on SRE and security leadership to deliver pragmatic, audited solutions. Based in Boise, Idaho, he is pursuing advanced research in computer science (PhD) while continuing to mentor and scale cloud-first engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Boise State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Business Administration & Management, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration & Management at Western Governors UniversityAssociate's degree, Associate's degree at Utah Valley University
English, French
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Github Skills (141)
web-application10
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laravel10
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foundation10
php10
javascript9
youtube9
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tasks9
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tableplus9
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jacurtis/laravel-blog-tutorial
Feb 2016 - May 2017
Follow along with how we built this blog using Laravel on YouTube. Read the Readme for more details. Watch it here:
Contributions:1 release, 38 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 3 months
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jacurtis/jacurtis.com
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:43 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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