Alex Hall
Principal Engineer at Kibu
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hall is a principal engineer and seasoned engineering leader with 15 years building SaaS and developer-focused products, currently leading platform and architecture work from Atlanta. He has repeatedly scaled teams from small startups to 50+ engineers while driving monolith-to-microservice transformations, CI/CD modernization, and database scalability efforts that reduced build times and improved reliability. Alex pairs executive-level strategy with hands-on technical leadership—owning infrastructure, security, and developer experience—and has driven measurable business impact, including multi-hundred-million-dollar revenue systems and an $800M lift through product engineering. Known for investing in long-term quality, he establishes guilds and practices (Developer Experience, TDD bootcamps) that increase developer productivity and reduce operational risk. Notably comfortable toggling between shipping code and shaping org-level roadmaps, he excels at aligning technology with business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems General at The University of Alabama
English
Github Skills (101)
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airtable10
whiteboard10
cron10
facebook10
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javascript9
expressjs9
nodejs9
mongodb9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
homedepot/hackathon-starter
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Hackathon starter repository which provides a baseline react/node/mongo app with integrations
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 day
mongodbreact
alex-hall/advent_of_code
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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