Alex Debrie
CTO at DeBrie Advisory
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Debrie is a CTO and seasoned cloud-native engineer with 12 years of experience designing serverless architectures and data systems, currently based in Omaha. He founded DeBrie Advisory and authored The DynamoDB Book, earning recognition as an AWS Data Hero for deep expertise in DynamoDB and serverless services like Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions. Alex combines hands-on contributions to prominent open-source projects (notably enhancements to the Serverless Framework and Redash) with leadership roles building platform tooling, CI/CD, and monitoring at Serverless Inc. and product-grade data pipelines at Hudl. He brings a rare mix of technical depth and strategic product experience—able to lead engineering teams, design scalable data models, and teach organizations to use AWS effectively. Before pivoting full-time to tech leadership, he practiced corporate law, giving him a strong background in contracts and governance that informs pragmatic, compliant engineering decisions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Doctor of Law (J.D.) at University of Virginia School of LawB.A. & B.S.B.A. Political Science; Economics, B.A. & B.S.B.A. Political Science; Economics at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (33)
api-rest10
javascript10
http-api10
python10
api-design10
testing10
event-driven10
go10
aws10
api-gateway10
functions-as-a-service10
serverless10
amazon-sqs9
postgresql9
redash9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
serverless/event-gateway
Jul 2017 - May 2018
React to any event with serverless functions across clouds
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 21 PRs, 22 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the serverless event gateway. Their work included adding endpoints for listing registered functions, implementing an emulator provider, and integrating AWS Firehose and SQS providers. The user also addressed bugs and made enhancements to improve functionality and maintainability, as seen in the updates to subscription handling and content-type management for HTTP providers.
reactserverless-functionsevent-drivendataflowpubsub
serverless/serverless
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:75 commits, 29 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to enhancing the serverless framework's capabilities, particularly around API Gateway authorizers. They added checks for various authorizer types (IAM, Custom, Cognito) and improved the handling of how authorizers are indicated in `serverless.yml`. The user also implemented checks for the endpoint configuration and expanded the existing tests to accommodate the changes. Additionally, the user implemented new print command for the resolved serverless.yml file, and improved CI/CD configuration by sending stats to the new tracking endpoint.
aws-lambdacloud-serviceslambdaserverless-frameworkserverless
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