Alex Leigh
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Leigh is a software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and operating data pipelines and analytics platforms, currently at Meta after roles at Envoy and Google. He has led machine learning pipeline development using Spark, Kafka, and Cassandra, and championed contract-first microservice communication across organizations. Alex is experienced building distributed processing systems with Akka and deploying cloud-native applications on Docker and Kubernetes. Comfortable across languages from Java and Scala to Python, C/C++, and Objective-C, he also builds web frontends/backends and native iOS apps. A Harvard A.B. in Computer Science, he combines deep systems engineering with a pragmatic focus on reliable, production-grade data infrastructure. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain fluency—moving between low-level systems, ML pipelines, and product-facing applications with equal ease.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Computer Science, A.B. Computer Science at Harvard UniversityOssining High School
English, Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
547reputation
41kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (132)
bash10
certbot10
rest-api10
ash10
sendgrid10
acme-protocol10
unix10
letsencrypt10
acme10
zerossl10
proxmox10
shell10
lm-sensors10
musl10
posix10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
revinate/sendgrid-java
Feb 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 1 year 8 months
javajava-bindingssendgrid
alexleigh/pve-manager
Mar 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 5 months
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