Alex Dixon
Principal Engineer at Salty
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Dixon is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, data-intensive systems and leading small teams from Sacramento, CA. He has a track record of shipping production services and tooling—spanning serverless AWS architectures, Kubernetes-based MLOps, Spark/Databricks pipelines, GraphQL APIs, and real-time sync for web and Unity clients. Alex combines practical engineering with product sense, having implemented reactive client-side state frameworks, live-query feeds, and a recommender system that accelerated ML training and inference at scale. He also runs a parallel career as a real estate agent, bringing negotiation and project-management skills to property investments and renovations. Trained in English at UC Berkeley and self-taught in full-stack engineering via freeCodeCamp, he excels at translating complex domain requirements into clear, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) English at University of California, BerkeleyCertificate in Full-Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Certificate in Full-Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampJournalism, Journalism at City College of San Francisco
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
edn10
testing10
certification10
automation10
schema10
useeffect10
firefox10
dependency-injection10
logic-programming10
declarative-programming10
chaining10
nodejs10
css10
math10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
CoNarrative/exemplar
Sep 2017 - May 2018
Record functions
Contributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 7 months
recordclojurerecording-api
alex-dixon/ell
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
A language model programming framework.
Contributions:155 pushes, 14 branches in 4 months
language-model
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