Alex Toombs
Senior Manager, Platform Security And Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Toombs is a Senior Manager in Platform Security and Engineering with 13 years of experience building secure, reliable systems and scaling engineering organizations from tiny startups to thousand-person companies. Currently leading Platform Security, PaaS, and Developer Platforms at Discord, he combines hands-on systems and security engineering with org-level strategy around deployments, IAM, supply chain security, and developer productivity. He previously hired and built Alto Pharmacy’s security and privacy org after joining as an early engineer, owning authentication, authorization, HIPAA-compliant platform migrations, and the roadmap toward HITRUST. Comfortable across infrastructure, product, and compliance, Alex is as interested in improving team processes and hiring as he is in designing resilient, auditable systems. He brings a pragmatic blend of startup grit and large-org leadership, and retains deep technical chops from roles integrating containers, Kubernetes, and enterprise auth systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelors of Science Electrical Engineering at University of Notre Dame
English
Stackoverflow
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8kreached
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4questions
Github Skills (56)
messaging10
okta10
message-queue10
cloud-computing9
programming-language9
authorization9
golang9
go9
cgo9
gssapi9
message-bus9
cloud-native8
high-performance8
nats-server8
distributed-systems8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
levb/gssapi
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
GSSAPI bindings for Go
Contributions:23 commits in 10 months
golanggssapigo
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