Alex S
Chicken Farmer
United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlex S is a seasoned technology leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling cloud and security-focused systems across startups and major enterprises. He has held senior engineering and executive roles at AWS, Capital One, Block, and a stealth startup, bringing deep expertise in distributed systems, intrusion detection, supply chain and lifecycle management, and storage optimization. Known for moving between hands-on principal engineering and strategic leadership, he has led product and engineering teams at Fugue and served as CTO before returning to operational work. Based in the United States with a BS in Computer Science from George Mason University, Alex blends practical systems knowledge with organizational strategy to deliver reliable, secure infrastructure. An unconventional detail: he currently lists “Chicken Farmer” as his title—reflecting either a personal agricultural pursuit or an inventive approach to describing supply-chain and lifecycle responsibilities. This combination of large-scale cloud experience and cross-disciplinary curiosity makes him adept at bridging product, security, and operational concerns.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at George Mason University
Stackoverflow
4,326reputation
749kreached
68answers
11questions
linux
top-5%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (67)
bitcoin-core10
cryptocurrency10
p2p10
credentials10
staging10
bitcoin10
cryptography10
descriptor10
linux9
bitcoind9
security9
python9
json-rpc9
bitcoin-wallet9
aws9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
a5an0/bitcoin-wallet-airdrop
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Tooling for handing out bitcoin wallets F2F to a large number of people
Contributions:2 reviews, 39 commits, 5 PRs in 3 days
walletswalletf2fcryptocurrencybitcoin
honkhonkwallets/honkhonkwallets.github.io
Feb 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:51841 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.