Alexa Rust
Full Stack Engineer at Synthesize Bio
Friday Harbor, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexa Rust is a Full Stack Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and Postgres-driven platforms, now bringing her skills to Synthesize Bio. Her career spans early-stage startup engineering—where she migrated a live platform to AWS, automated deployments with Ansible, and built real-time replication for shared staging—to contributions at Socrata designing async geocoding and dataset colocation for complex queries. Trained in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy at the University of Washington, she combines rigorous technical design with thoughtful problem framing and cross-team collaboration. Equally comfortable in Scala, Java, NodeJS, and SQL, she has supported data science pipelines in Airflow and implemented both REST and GraphQL APIs. Outside of software she applies endurance and leadership as a former race participant in R2AK/WA360 and as a community firefighter and former fire district commissioner on San Juan Island—evidence of her knack for high-stakes teamwork and operational responsibility.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Arts Computer Science Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor of Science & Bachelor of Arts Computer Science Mathematics and Philosophy at University of Washington
Github Skills (20)
socrata10
data-api10
operation9
barrage9
adapter9
api8
soql8
open-data8
soql-query7
reference-implementation6
query-language5
geocoding5
autocomplete5
postgresql5
soda4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aerust/aerust.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
aerust/tidecal
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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