Alex Long
Principal Software Engineer at Tamr
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Long is a Principal Software Engineer in Somerville, MA with a PhD in elementary particle physics and a decade of experience building cloud-native DataOps and ML pipelines. At Tamr he has progressed from DataOps Engineer to Principal Engineer and Director, leading customer implementations, operating Tamr-managed GCP clouds, and bridging product, SRE, and engineering teams. He combines deep scientific computing roots—analyzing petabyte-scale LHC datasets and running large-scale simulations—with practical production experience in Python, C/C++, and cloud infrastructure. A hands-on leader and coach, Alex mentors data engineers and scientists while driving reproducible, scalable ML delivery. Notably, his career blends high-energy physics research rigor with applied DataOps strategy, enabling complex analytics to move reliably from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Elementary Particle Physics at Boston University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (13)
phonetics10
terraform-module10
terraform9
aws9
toolbox9
origami9
apl9
emr8
python8
rds8
rds-postgres7
api4
api-client4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
along528/insight
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 140 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
along528/WWWAnalysisDemo
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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