Alex Jacks
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Jacks is a Software Development Engineer II with 12 years of experience building reliable, user-focused systems and infrastructure-as-code at AWS. He bridges backend, DevOps, and full-stack work—previously shipping features and CI/CD improvements for distributed testing and file sync platforms at Applause and Hitachi Vantara. An early contributor to industry-known open-source digital forensics projects (The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy), he has hands-on experience with database/schema work, file-system analysis, and build pipeline enhancements. A Northeastern CS graduate based in Somerville, Alex combines a quality-first mindset with a habit of “automating himself out of a job,” turning repetitive workflows into testable, maintainable code.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (14)
c-language10
incident-response10
cprogramming-language10
computer-forensics10
ntfs10
sql10
databases9
cicd9
java9
database9
build-automation9
devops9
javas9
sqlite9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sleuthkit/autopsy
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory card.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:140 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the codebase by merging branches and incorporating updates from the upstream develop branch. Their contributions included modifications to the build process, specifically by adding branch information to build failure emails. The user also made minor code adjustments, such as fixing syntax errors, which suggests a focus on maintaining code quality and the CI/CD pipeline.
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sleuthkit/sleuthkit
Apr 2014 - May 2014
The Sleuth Kit® (TSK) is a library and collection of command line digital forensics tools that allow you to investigate volume and file system data. The library can be incorporated into larger digital forensics tools and the command line tools can be directly used to find evidence.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Sleuth Kit project, focusing on database interactions and file system analysis. Their commits involve modifications to database schema, SQL queries, and file system data structures to support forensic analysis functions. They also worked on incorporating a parent directory map into the NTFS implementation, and addressed various bugs.
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