Alex Hofsteede
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Hofsteede is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building and leading engineering efforts across startups and large tech companies. He progressed from senior developer roles at early web companies to technical leadership at Mixpanel and principal engineering at Sentry before joining Google, demonstrating strong expertise in building scalable analytics and observability systems. Known for bridging hands-on implementation and architectural decision-making, he excels at evolving products from prototype to production-grade services. His career shows a pattern of moving into roles that increase scope and impact, suggesting strengths in mentoring, cross-team collaboration, and system design. Trained in computer science at Victoria University of Wellington, he brings a pragmatic, product-aware engineering approach forged in both growth-stage and enterprise environments.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
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Github Skills (86)
sentry10
python10
monitoring10
error-logging10
django10
sdk10
swift10
mixpanel10
monitor10
analytics10
apm10
gatsbyjs10
performance-monitoring10
objective-c10
ios10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alex-hofsteede/vimfiles
Feb 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
alex-hofsteede/caltrain_timetable
Aug 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 10 months
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