Alex Hearn is a software engineering manager in Austin with 11 years of experience building distributed web services and leading teams at H-E-B after progressing from staff engineer to manager. He brings deep polyglot engineering skills—Python, Java, Clojure, JavaScript—and a practical background in data engineering and full-stack product work across startups and larger organizations including Amazon. His undergraduate research in compiler optimizations at Indiana University informs a thoughtful approach to system design and performance trade-offs that isn’t obvious from job titles alone. Alex excels at translating low-level language and compiler insights into reliable production services and mentoring engineers to do the same.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
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Alex Hearn - Software Engineering Manager at H-E-B