Alex King
Staff Software Engineer at Solace
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex King is an engineering manager at Google with seven years of experience focused on optimizing virtualization and resource efficiency in Google Compute Engine. He leads cross-organizational programs to reduce CPU, memory, and bandwidth overheads across hypervisor, compute node, and IPU stacks while advising on product SKU strategy to balance customer experience and operational cost. Previously a staff and senior software engineer, he built scalable feature-flag frameworks, high-availability NVRAM services, and proactive server capacity automation that prevented VM crashes. A clear communicator and technical leader, he scaled processes and tooling across 300+ engineers and coordinated SRE and product stakeholders. He graduated with highest honors in computer science from Tufts and was once selected to present internship work at Apple to Craig Federighi. Based in Seattle, he pairs deep systems engineering expertise with interests in consumer tech, urbanism, and food.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development | Computer Science, Full Stack Web Development | Computer Science at BloomTechBachelor of Science, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (32)
media-queries10
preprocessing10
css10
responsive-design10
user-interface10
flexbox10
html10
functional-components10
aws-lambda9
aws9
lambda9
serverless8
react8
git8
version-control6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Alex-AK/cktile.co
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
team-mentor-me/mentor-me-back
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Mentor Me lets new entrepreneurs seek advice from qualified business professionals.
Contributions:83 commits, 31 PRs, 68 pushes in 4 months
adviceseekjavascriptmentorprofessionals
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