Alex Rhea
Co-Founder & CTO at Takt
Reston, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Rhea is a pragmatic engineering leader and Co-Founder & CTO with 14 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and modernizing enterprise infrastructure. He designed and scaled Takt, a multi-tenant SaaS for warehouse labor management that processes billions of scans in real time using Google Cloud, Spanner, BigQuery and GKE, and progressed the product from a PHP/MySQL MVP to a Golang/Vue serverless architecture. Previously at AWS he drove container adoption and product feedback for EKS and GovCloud customers, and at Cloudreach he led large-scale infrastructure modernization and a 30+ engineer DevOps practice. Alex combines deep hands-on systems engineering with GTM and partner-facing experience, making him fluent in both technical architecture and customer outcomes. Based in Reston, VA, he blends startup grit with enterprise compliance know-how, having navigated FedRAMP and DoD security constraints while launching production-grade distributed systems.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Business Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Business Information Technology at Virginia Tech
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Github Skills (134)
terraform10
livereload10
packer10
docker-secrets10
remote-api10
graph10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
vscode-extension10
amazon-linux10
vscode10
amazon-eks10
docker10
file-watcher10
docker-api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
arhea/backbone-deferred
Mar 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 7 months
deferredjquerybackbonejavascriptoptions
arhea/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:108 commits, 111 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 8 months
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