Alex Karcher
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Karcher is a software engineer and co-founder with nine years of experience building cloud-native, serverless systems and developer-facing tooling. Based in Redmond, WA, he has driven backend infrastructure and integration work on Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions at Microsoft, and now leads product and engineering for ScanFetch, a SaaS food traceability startup leveraging C# and serverless hosting. He pairs product-focused program management—improving developer onboarding, observability, and scale—with hands-on implementation, shipping code changes to open-source viewers and services. Comfortable across startups and large enterprise, he’s solved operational gaps from developer environment automation to enterprise failover routing. Outside of work he maintains a personal GitHub and brings a cross-disciplinary perspective shaped by studies in economics and psychology.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, minors in Economics and Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, minors in Economics and Psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (37)
forestry10
microsoft10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
azure-functions10
swagger10
microsoft-azure10
sustainability10
earth10
azure-digital-twins10
rest10
azure10
rest-api10
openapi10
msbuild-task9
user-experience9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexkarcher-msft/azure-rest-api-specs
Apr 2022 - Jun 2022
The source for REST API specifications for Microsoft Azure.
Contributions:14 pushes in 2 months
apispecificationsrestmicrosoft-azuremicrosoft
paulbatum/reimagined-sniffle
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
OpenHack 2020 Table 2
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 day
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