Alex Noonan
Software Engineer at Thrive Capital
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Noonan is a software engineer based in New York with five years of professional engineering experience across fast-moving startups and platform companies, now contributing to Thrive Capital. He brings a strong data-oriented background—having moved from analytics roles into engineering at Segment, PlanetScale, and HealthLeap AI—and contributes to open-source data orchestration work in Dagster, focusing on documentation and practical ETL examples. Alex is comfortable bridging product and infrastructure concerns, integrating tools like DuckDB, Google Drive, and Pinecone to make data pipelines accessible and reproducible. His early career in marketing analytics and client-facing platform solutions gives him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to developer tooling and docs.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (17)
dagster10
data-pipelines10
python10
data-engineering10
etl10
duckdb10
orchestration10
orchestra10
data-pipeline10
data-integration10
analytics9
documentation9
google-drive-api8
pinecone8
data-science8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 65 PRs, 129 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributes to the documentation and example code related to data pipelines and orchestration within the Dagster framework. They are focused on creating tutorials, adding code references, and providing example projects to help users adopt and understand Dagster's core features. This involves creating and modifying assets and jobs, configuring resources, and integrating with data storage solutions like DuckDB. The contributions are centered around building an ETL pipeline and integrating external tools like Google Drive, and Pinecone.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
C00ldudeNoonan/economic-data-project
Jul 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 41 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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