Alexa Herrera
Staff Software Engineer, Fleet Orchestration
Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAlexa Herrera is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience building and automating resilient infrastructure for cloud and on-premises environments. She has driven cross-region scalability and operational efficiency at AWS, cut provisioning time dramatically, and implemented patching and CI/CD solutions that kept thousands of instances within SLAs. At Lambda and Zapproved she modernized Ansible-driven infrastructure, modularized role-based deployments, and standardized secure access practices to reduce support load and remove non-ephemeral credentials. Comfortable bridging engineering and compliance, she serves as a liaison for SOC 2 controls while keeping platform automation developer-friendly. Outside work she brings a practical, hands-on mindset—an avid baker, gardener and robotics mentor—reflecting a blend of meticulous process and creative problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Not Completed, PSYCHOLOGY, Not Completed, PSYCHOLOGY at California State University Channel Islands
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (44)
ecommerce9
sts9
aws9
php9
python8
ansible8
discord-bot8
magento8
discord7
ssh7
atom-plugin7
irc7
adobe7
affiliates6
automation6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
anherrera/budget
Oct 2013 - Jul 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 2 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 years 10 months
javascriptbudget-appmeteorbudget
anherrera/discord-acrobot
Sep 2016 - Aug 2022
Play acrophobia on Discord.
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 11 months
discorddiscord-bot
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