Alex Milstead
Senior Staff Software Engineer at IonQ
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Milstead is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building infrastructure, release engineering, and systems for both cloud and bare-metal environments, currently leading network and compute hardware efforts at IonQ. He blends deep hands-on skill in Python, Go, Java, Kubernetes, and real-time embedded build automation with practical data center and capacity planning experience to ship production control software for quantum hardware. Alex has a track record of introducing IaC, Kubernetes, and tooling—migrating legacy systems to Terraform/GKE/RKE2, automating provisioning for HPC and bare-metal, and establishing corporate IT and SOC2 practices. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs systems-level thinking with developer ergonomics, often prototyping on Raspberry Pis and Adafruit microcontrollers to explore edge and networking designs. An engineer who moves comfortably between low-level device concerns and large-scale operational strategy, he’s as likely to write a deterministic build for an embedded controller as to design a resilient data center rollout.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (66)
terraform9
terraform-provider9
aws9
quantum-computing8
unity3d8
sdk8
qiskit8
optimizely8
pypi8
thrift7
quantum-programming-language7
docker-desktop7
python7
gocd7
buildbot7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
amilstead/python-logging-examples
Sep 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
amilstead/unity3d-thrift-twisted
Feb 2015 - Mar 2021
An example for using Thrift with a Unity3D Client and Python Twisted Server.
Contributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 6 years 2 months
pythonthriftunity3d
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