Summary
Alex Lyte is a Director of Product with 12 years of experience building technology for US government and legislative customers, currently leading the product team for the Sunwater Institute’s Legis1 platform used by Congressional staff. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership—having moved from Principal Engineer and Director of Engineering roles to shape delivery, infrastructure (Heroku→AWS/Terraform/Kubernetes), and organizational security for mission-critical products. His background at MITRE includes scaling legal and policy analysis workflows with ML and citation-network research published at ICAIL, which informs his ability to translate complex legal workflows into usable software. Alex is comfortable hiring and leading cross-functional teams, removing delivery blockers, and shipping features for high-stakes contracts on time and under budget. Based in McLean, VA, he brings a rare mix of policy-domain expertise, data analytics training, and practical startup experience building real-time apps for Congressional operations.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics Engineering at George Mason University - Volgenau School of Engineering
Associate of Arts (A.A.) in Economics, Economics, Associate of Arts (A.A.) in Economics, Economics at Santa Barbara City College
Economics, B.A., Minor in Mathematics, Economics, B.A., Minor in Mathematics at University of California, Santa Barbara
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