Summary
Alex Sleighter is a VP of Engineering with 15+ years building full-stack web and IoT systems, now leading engineering at Arches after senior roles at Leafly and Groupon. He combines hands-on architecture and DevOps expertise (.NET, Ruby/Rails, Java, AWS/Heroku, PostgreSQL/MongoDB) with a philosophy of minimizing developer friction so teams can focus on product delivery. Alex has designed continuous delivery workflows, led compliance-aware engineering in regulated environments (HIPAA), and bridged product, design, and legal input into pragmatic processes that reduce noise and regressions. Comfortable from embedded assembly and hardware prototyping to scalable, high-availability backend architectures, he鈥檚 equally fluent in tooling and team dynamics. Based in Baltimore and trained at Johns Hopkins (MSE EE, BS Biomedical Engineering), he distinguishes himself by engineering developer nirvana鈥攂uilding systems and processes that let great engineers actually write great code.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins University