Alexa S
Software Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexa S is a software engineer and former physicist with 11 years of experience turning research-grade systems into production products across quantum computing, aerospace, and financial software. Based in San Francisco, she has blended hands-on engineering, program management, and product leadership at organizations including Rigetti and Carta, where she progressed from technical program roles into product leadership. Her background building and automating control systems for Advanced LIGO gives her deep expertise in instrumentation, feedback control, and data-driven debugging, skills she applies to complex hardware-software integrations. She has led cross-functional teams to productionize R&D, maintained test automation for safety-critical UAV software, and contributed code and measurements as an individual contributor. Known for translating ambiguous technical requirements into tracked, deliverable roadmaps, she excels at making fragile systems robust and repeatable. Alexa combines a PhD in physics with pragmatic product instincts, bringing scientific rigor to software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, GPA: 3.9, PhD, Physics, GPA: 3.9 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, GPA: 3.87, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, GPA: 3.87 at Bowdoin College
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (25)
quantum-computing10
quil10
python9
cpp6
java6
low-latency6
lisp5
database5
simd5
parquet5
sql5
time-series5
postgresql4
kdb4
grafana4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
astaley/astaley.github.io
Aug 2019 - Dec 2020
My Github Pages Site
Contributions:6 PRs, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
jekyllgithub-pages-site
rajeshkumarkarra/pyquil
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
A Python library for quantum programming using Quil.
Contributions:2 commits in 8 months
python
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