Alexa Noxon
Software Development Engineer - Elastic Load Balancing at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexa Noxon is a software engineer with 7 years of experience building secure, low-level systems and cloud infrastructure, currently working on Elastic Load Balancing at AWS in Seattle. She brings deep embedded and IoT security expertise from her prior role integrating hardware security with FreeRTOS and AWS IoT, and earlier work designing cryptographic peripherals and key management at Texas Instruments. Alexa has hands-on experience across the stack from microcontroller firmware to scalable cloud services, and has contributed to notable open-source projects such as amazon-freertos, including PKCS #11 integration and multi-platform OTA support. Her background in applied research and hardware-proximal development gives her a practical appreciation for reliability and constrained environments that informs her cloud work. Colleagues rely on her to bridge hardware security requirements with production-grade software delivery.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Harvey Mudd College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (5)
freertos10
embedded10
c-programming10
sys10
esp328
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-freertos
Nov 2018 - Dec 2019
DEPRECATED - See README.md
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:155 commits, 176 PRs, 355 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alexa's commits primarily focused on updating the version and changelog of the Amazon FreeRTOS OTA PAL for different hardware platforms, and they were also responsible for integrating FreeRTOS with the PKCS #11 libraries. The code changes modified files across different hardware platforms and involved updating various headers that relied on FreeRTOS kernel types. The user also addressed a problem related to the SPIRAM enabled configuration for ESP32.
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SiliconLabs/amazon-freertos
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
IoT operating system for microcontrollers.
Contributions:41 commits in 2 months
nrf52workbenchoperating-systemrtosoperating
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