Summary
Alex 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, Berkeley
Certificate in Full-Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering, Certificate in Full-Stack Web Development Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Journalism, Journalism at City College of San Francisco
English, Spanish