Summary
Alex Dean is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience blending academic rigor and practical engineering, currently building distributed systems at Lambda. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from RIT and wrote a thesis on process cooperativity and feedback in concurrent message-passing languages, reflecting deep interest in programming language theory and concurrency. Proficient across Java, Erlang, C++/C#, SML, Python and JavaScript, he pairs language-level insight with hands-on experience in SQL and NoSQL datastores (MySQL, DynamoDB, Mnesia, Riak, Accumulo) on Linux platforms. Alex favors vim and IntelliJ toolchains and brings an unusual combination of research-minded curiosity and production-focused craftsmanship to reliability, security, and integrity problems. Based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he balances family life with a longstanding passion for programming languages and distributed systems that informs both design and implementation choices.
14 years of coding experience
BS/MS, BS/MS at Rochester Institute of Technology
Grosse Pointe South High School
English