Alex Lancaster
Mentor at Beach Revolution
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Lancaster is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and mentoring engineers across startups and large tech companies. Currently working out of the Greater Tampa Bay Area and formerly at Microsoft and Amazon, he has delivered customer-facing solutions spanning edge ML, real-time energy matching, AKS-based multi-tenant services, and satellite data orchestration for AWS Ground Station. He has a strong DevOps and CI/CD background, led a major Office authentication rewrite adopted by large products, and contributed to breaking monoliths into service-oriented architectures. Beyond engineering, he founded and ran a community beach volleyball league, demonstrating operational grit and civic engagement alongside technical leadership. He holds both a BS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and actively mentors engineers through MentorMe.dev, blending hands-on coding with coaching and career development.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan
Spanish
Github Skills (43)
detection-model9
azure9
powershell8
azure-devops8
microsoft-azure8
tagging8
microsoft8
mlops-workflow7
devops7
type-declarations6
object-detection5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
azure-stream-analytics5
python5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alancast/LeetCodeProblems
Feb 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
alancast/JokeSuggester
Mar 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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