Alex Girard
Sr Data Engineer
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Girard is a senior data engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale data pipelines and analytics platforms, currently driving data architecture and automation at Salesforce. He has a track record of replacing legacy systems with Python-based ETL frameworks, migrating PostgreSQL warehouses to Snowflake, and designing JSON-driven orchestration that empowers non-technical stakeholders to manage 100+ tables. Alex focuses on practical business impact—his migrations saved significant contractor costs and turned an 80-hour quarterly audit into a seconds-long automated process. A confident public speaker and "AI Champion," he evaluates LLMs and codifies prompt engineering and token-efficiency best practices to boost developer productivity. Based in Kirkland and educated at Western Washington University, he blends operations-first reliability experience from Tableau and Clearwire with modern cloud data engineering and security practices.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration - Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration - Management Information Systems at Western Washington University
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (7)
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Github contributions (5)
uwvexu/uwvexu
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Team website https://www.uwvexu.ca
Contributions:45 commits, 34 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
BenLanglois/Hackmon
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
CS 247 Group Project
Contributions:89 commits, 13 PRs, 67 pushes in 15 days
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