Alex Zenla
Founder & CTO at Edera
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Zenla is a Founder & CTO with 13 years of professional experience who builds secure-by-design infrastructure and founded Edera to make computing intrinsically safer. Starting as a child contributor to Chromium/Chromium OS and a teenage hire building an IoT platform, he matured into an IoT and infrastructure expert who has led teams, modernized core stacks, and advised Google on IoT strategies. He blends low-level systems knowledge—hypervisors, kernel tooling and virtualization—with full-stack work in languages like Dart, Rust and Groovy, and has contributed to notable open-source projects including dartdoc and git2-rs. Based in Seattle, Alex combines entrepreneurial drive with deep engineering craft, and uniquely pairs early systems-level experience with production-scale IoT and secure infrastructure design.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
json-parser10
json10
git10
libgit210
groovy10
jsonp10
templater10
template-engine10
java10
binding10
libgit2sharp10
javas10
parsing10
github-api10
rust10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
SpinlockLabs/github.dart
Jul 2014 - Jun 2018
GitHub Client Library for Dart
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:567 commits, 35 PRs, 98 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily focus on the implementation and enhancement of browser-based user interface elements for the GitHub client library. Their contributions involved adding new functionalities, such as fetching and displaying user information, implementing a repository browsing interface, and adding a search bar for emoji. The user utilized Dart for front-end development, leveraging the GitHub API to interact with repository data.
dart
dart-lang/dartdoc
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
API documentation tool for Dart.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 18 PRs, 40 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to various aspects of the `dartdoc` project, including fixing bugs related to package utilities and HTML generation. They implemented syntax highlighting and improved code formatting within templates. Additionally, the user added features such as property and constant pages, while also addressing issues related to operator and parameter hrefs, improving overall documentation quality and usability.
dart
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