Alex Kaplan
Head Of Platform Engineering
Novato, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kaplan is a Head of Platform Engineering with over a decade of hands-on and leadership experience building secure, compliant, cloud-native platforms for regulated industries like healthcare, pharma, and fintech. He has led platform modernization efforts—Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and OPA—while delivering high-stakes products including the industry’s first prescription processing system for digital therapeutics and an out-of-band OTC dispensing solution. Known for balancing technical execution with team wellbeing, he has driven SOC2 attestation, advised on IEC 81001-5-1 compliance, and helped scale engineering across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure teams. Comfortable as both an individual contributor and strategic operator, Alex has repeatedly stabilized systems under pressure (e.g., mission-critical money movement at LendUp and global clinical platforms at Akili) and played a visible role in corporate milestones like Akili’s Nasdaq listing. Based in Novato, CA, he brings a pragmatic, reliability-first approach to building auditable, production-ready systems in regulated, cross-border environments.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
universe10
dcos10
package10
python9
mesosphere9
package-manager9
package-repository8
hugo1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akaplan-mesosphere/universe
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
mesosphereuniversepackage-repository
akaplan-mesosphere/support-tools
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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