Alex Plant
Staff Software Engineer at Datavant
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Plant is a Staff Software Engineer in San Diego with a decade of experience building event-driven, cloud-native systems and developer tooling across fintech, real estate tech, and defense contractors. He’s delivered scalable CI/CD, secrets management, and compliance-aligned infrastructure while leading teams to reduce manual deployments by 90% and improve operational readiness through on-call ownership. At Opendoor and Moov he modernized legacy stacks, reverse-engineered complex business processes from long-running transaction data, and surfaced actionable analytics for internal users. His background spans full-stack architecture, migrations to cloud-native deployments, and pragmatic automation that turns brittle environments into reliable platforms. Known for combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership, he also has a knack for turning maintenance headaches into measurable velocity gains. Despite an unfinished CS degree, his career reflects steady progression from helpdesk tooling to architecting production systems at scale.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Incomplete B.Sc. Computer Science, Incomplete B.Sc. Computer Science at University of MarylandLeonardtown High School
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Github Skills (59)
charts9
payment-gateway9
gwt9
helm9
payment9
prometheus9
cli9
shell9
docker8
zsh8
fintech8
php8
bash8
kubernetes8
annotations7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexjplant/personal
Apr 2021 - Sep 2024
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
alexjplant/infra
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Infrastrucutre setup for moov.io properties
Contributions:30 pushes, 44 branches in 1 month
moovansiblekubernetesproperties
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