Alex Witherspoon
VP Of Engineering at AW.Run
Sandy, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Witherspoon is a strategic engineering leader and founder with 11 years of senior product and technology experience who currently serves as VP of Engineering at Going, building delightful travel experiences. He has repeatedly scaled engineering organizations and product platforms—from leading global teams at GitHub through a major acquisition to growing FlightStats' data platform and steering Smile.io to world-scale e-commerce reach. Alex blends hands-on technical building with executive strategy and advising, founding niche community services like AviationWX.org that solves pilots’ real-time weather needs and running a consulting practice to coach executives. Comfortable in distributed, multi-national teams, he has led cross-functional EPD organizations, orchestrated M&A outcomes, and delivered high-throughput data systems and mobile-first consumer products. Based in Sandy, Oregon, he pairs operator instincts with a founder’s curiosity, often mining domain-specific problems (aviation, travel, e-commerce) to create practical, widely adopted solutions.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics Education Researcher, Robotics Education Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Portland State UniversityM3 Grant Researcher, M3 Grant Researcher at Wichita State University
English
Github Skills (54)
synchronous10
nvidia-docker9
nvidia8
asynchronous8
bootstrap7
docker-run7
hugo-theme7
gpu7
cuda7
docker7
agile6
responsive6
movie6
hugo6
plex5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexwitherspoon/plexhealthcheck
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Simple Bash Script to Check Plexmediaserver health and restart Plex Media Server Docker
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
plexmediaserverplex-medianetdataplexmedia-server-docker
alexwitherspoon/spoon.family
Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:45 commits, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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