Alex Foran
Staff Software Engineer at Grow Therapy
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Foran is a Staff Software Engineer based in Milwaukee with 12 years of experience building and leading cloud-native, production-focused engineering teams. He combines hands-on full‑stack engineering (Python, Go, Kubernetes, Docker, JS/TS) with operational ownership—having led SOC 2 compliance, security patching, and customer-facing support and sales at Saturn Cloud. Alex has moved between hands-on principal roles and engineering leadership, consistently bridging product architecture and execution to keep cross-team work coherent and reliable. Known for diving into messy legacy systems as well as designing modern containerized platforms, he prefers solving hard operational problems that others avoid.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Nicolet High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
German
Github Skills (200)
zero-configuration10
elasticsearch10
continuum10
ids10
developer-tools10
search-engine10
blueprint10
java10
build-tools10
ossec10
react10
create-react-app10
monitoring9
mypy9
rest9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
saturncloud/sshpiper
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
The missing reverse proxy for ssh scp
Contributions:17 reviews, 16 PRs, 19 pushes in 11 months
proxysshreverse-proxymissingscp
forana/KeyBored
May 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:40 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 11 months
noteswindowslinuxpresskeys
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