Alex Denton
VP Of Engineering at Mend: Integrated Patient Engagement and Telehealth Platform
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Denton is a VP of Engineering with 12 years of experience leading product-to-platform engineering across startups and growth-stage companies, currently focusing on making mental and behavioral healthcare more accessible at Mend. He began as a frontend developer, transitioned into API design, and now specializes in DevOps and site reliability, bringing a pragmatic full-stack perspective to infrastructure and delivery. Alex has a strong track record building and scaling teams, hiring top talent, and instituting measurable quality and technical debt processes that inform leadership-level roadmaps. He pairs hands-on problem solving—whether fixing stubborn bugs or shipping platform features—with strategic work like due diligence and acquisition support. Based in Orlando and trained at the University of Central Florida, he intentionally seeks new challenges to avoid complacency and keep teams engaged. Colleagues describe him as a people-first engineering leader who treats making great software as both a craft and a meaningful mission.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (63)
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dotnet8
azure-devops8
microsoft-azure8
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bmp7
png7
dotnet-core7
entity-framework7
database7
apache-kafka6
asp-net6
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AlexDenton/ErinCreativeDesign
Aug 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:32 commits in 5 months
DentonLabs/Interviewd
Nov 2016 - Nov 2019
An application for managing interviews.
Contributions:3 PRs, 123 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
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