Summary
Alex Reid is a Member of Technical Staff in San Jose with 10 years of experience building large-scale data and adtech systems across startups and enterprise teams. He specializes in Java, AWS, and big-data stacks (Spark, Flink, Presto/Hive, EMR) and has architected real-time pipelines handling tens of thousands of ad events per second and TB-scale ETL workflows. Alex has held senior and director-level roles at adtech firms and contributed to revenue-generating platforms that power high-throughput RTB auctions and campaign delivery systems. Equally comfortable as a full-stack engineer and an architect, he combines hands-on coding, deployment, and monitoring experience with pragmatic system design for reliability and scale. Based in the Bay Area and now at Databricks after Tabular’s acquisition, he brings deep operational insight into streaming analytics and data platform engineering. An early Mobclix engineer, he has a track record of turning prototype systems into production-critical infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo