Alex Wilcoxson
Principal Engineer at Relativity
Valparaiso, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wilcoxson is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of applied software experience, currently leading architecture and delivery at Relativity after progressing through roles from advanced engineer to staff and now principal. Based in Valparaiso, Indiana, he combines deep systems and platform knowledge honed at Cisco and refined across multiple senior engineering positions at Relativity to solve large-scale, production-grade problems. Alex has a pragmatic track record of moving complex codebases forward, mentoring teams, and shipping reliable features across infrastructure and application layers. His foundation in computer science from Purdue and early experience with low-level networking and boot firmware give him a rare comfort with both hardware-adjacent systems and higher-level platform design. Colleagues rely on him for steady technical leadership and for translating ambiguous requirements into maintainable, auditable solutions.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (60)
python10
toolbox10
in-memory10
pandas10
storage10
databricks10
pandas-dataframe10
apache10
data-format10
java10
apache-arrow10
polars10
parquet10
rust10
data-access10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
relativityone/arrow-rs
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Official Rust implementation of Apache Arrow
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 5 months
relativityone/datafusion
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Apache DataFusion SQL Query Engine
Contributions:1 review, 4 PRs, 9 pushes in 10 months
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