Alex Hughes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building and delivering cloud services, currently owning feature delivery on Azure Database for PostgreSQL at Microsoft. He combines software engineering and program management experience from leading engineering teams at EF Education First with deep operational ownership—design, architecture, testing, debugging, and deployment—on a large-scale cloud database service. His background spans full lifecycle product delivery and people leadership, informed by international development and public-sector program work (including Peace Corps and USAID collaborations) that sharpened his cross-cultural communication and program measurement skills. Alex brings a multidisciplinary perspective—master’s training in public administration alongside post-baccalaureate computer science studies—that helps him bridge technical tradeoffs with customer-focused outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree History and Spanish, Bachelor’s Degree History and Spanish at University of Oregon
Spanish History, Spanish History at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Master’s Degree Public Administration, Master’s Degree Public Administration at Portland State University
Post-Bachelor's Courses Computer Science, Post-Bachelor's Courses Computer Science at Oregon State University
Source code for my personal site, built using Gatsby and TypeScript
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