Alex Myers
Global Leadership Development at Databricks
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Myers is a leadership development and sales performance professional based in San Francisco with a background that blends go-to-market strategy and technical test engineering. With a decade-plus career spanning Salesforce and Databricks, he has led global onboarding, enablement, and sales coaching programs that scale across enterprise teams. He pairs people-centric leadership with hands-on engineering contributions to open-source Core Lightning, where his test automation and routing work improved stability for a high-profile Lightning Network implementation. Alex brings a psychology undergraduate foundation to designing scalable learning experiences and performance systems that drive measurable sales outcomes. Known for moving between strategic program leadership and detailed technical troubleshooting, he thrives at the intersection of scalable enablement and reliable systems.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Psychology at Western Michigan University
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ElementsProject/lightning
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Core Lightning — Lightning Network implementation focusing on spec compliance and performance
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 172 reviews, 37 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the testing of the Core Lightning implementation. Their commits focused on writing and improving tests for various components, including websocket connections and gossip rate limiting. They also modified the routing code and updated gossip store functionality, particularly in relation to handling rate-limited gossip and private channel updates. The user's work contributes to the stability and reliability of the Lightning Network implementation.
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endothermicdev/lightning
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
c-lightning — a Lightning Network implementation in C
Contributions:268 pushes, 99 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 1 month
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