Alex Strachan
Founding Engineer at Stealth Mode Still
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Strachan is a founding engineer and systems architect with 10 years of experience designing data-flow and backend systems for high-throughput, mission-critical platforms. Based in San Francisco, he has led core infrastructure efforts at companies from startups to scale-ups—architecting multi-cell region routing for Rippling, building a 10x ingestion pipeline at Lob, and launching AI-powered code generation at Speakeasy. He combines deep applied math training from Johns Hopkins with hands-on engineering to solve performance, observability, and data residency challenges across distributed services. Alex has a track record of translating product, legal, and security constraints into pragmatic technical designs and developer-friendly frameworks (including a serverless edge compute dev framework adopted company-wide). He mentors engineers, creates culture- and knowledge-raising programs like tech talks, and repeatedly reduces operational friction and release latency through pragmatic re-architecture. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who pairs quantitative rigor with product-focused delivery.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Verona High SchoolJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (80)
windows10
javascript10
linux10
js10
nodejs10
docker-compose9
priority-queue9
api9
styles9
rocket9
macos9
job-queue8
rest8
sdk8
golang8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
metalsheep/templatestring
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 3 months
speakeasy-sdks/dub-docs
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Official docs for Dub.co
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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