Alex Tanton
Technical Lead at Serve Robotics
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Tanton is a principal software engineer and technical leader with over a decade of experience building scalable systems and high-performing teams across startups and enterprises. Currently shaping robotics automation architecture at Zebra Technologies and recently joining Serve Robotics, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic influence across multi-team platforms. His background includes CTO roles at early-stage companies, platform engineering at Amazon scale, and contributions to open-source projects that informed AWS services. Alex focuses on customer-centered solutions, observability, and DevOps/AI-enhanced workflows, and he’s skilled in turning complex distributed systems into elegant, maintainable platforms. Based in Austin and originally from Canada, he mentors engineers, builds engineering cultures that prioritize code quality and learning, and brings a musician’s creative sensibility to problem solving. Outside work he plays drums with his band Lonesome Ranch and pursues music recording and drawing, a creative counterpoint that informs his systems design approach.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biochemistry/Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Biochemistry/Mathematics at Texas State UniversityBachelor's degree Philosophy, Bachelor's degree Philosophy at Kenyon College
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Github Skills (52)
mib10
sigv410
react-components9
monitoring9
snmp9
prometheus-exporter9
codebuild9
material-ui9
aws9
material-design9
aws-codebuild9
react9
operator8
k8s8
prometheus8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tantona/delete-bucket
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
CLI for deleting versioned AWS S3 Buckets
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 7 months
aws-s3cli
MiPadrinoTeam/segment-cordova-plugin
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
Cordova Plugin for Segment mobile SDK
Contributions:46 pushes in 10 months
mobile-sdkcordovaionicandroidsdk
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