Alexander Costa
Solutions Engineer at JetBrains
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Costa is a Solutions Engineer with 11 years of hands-on, customer-facing technical experience focused on driving customer adoption and operational excellence in observability and cloud environments. He has progressed through roles at New Relic from support engineer to senior technical account manager, where he led enterprise account strategies, coached teams on observability principles, and delivered measurable improvements in system performance and customer retention. Now at JetBrains and contributing as a security researcher at Broken Oak Security, he blends practical cloud and monitoring expertise with an emerging focus on security research. Alexander's background includes hands-on migrations, agent integrations, and tooling work that solved compatibility challenges for legacy infrastructure—an indicator of his knack for pragmatic, creative solutions. Based in Gainesville, Florida, he pairs technical depth in agents, AWS, and observability with a talent for mentoring teams and turning complex requirements into actionable, customer-centric outcomes. Off the clock he keeps a light touch—his GitHub bio admits he’s "here for the snacks," hinting at a personable, team-friendly approach.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Website Development & Design, Website Development & Design at Portland Community CollegePHP - JS - Drupal, PHP - JS - Drupal at Epicodus
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Github Skills (15)
rails4
newrelic4
top-down4
relic4
golang3
rapid3
phaser3
developer-tools2
programming-language2
javascript2
go2
web-development2
web-framework1
buffalo1
observability1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexMcosta/learning_go
Mar 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
alexMcosta/narkwhal
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Narkwhal goes through your AWS account using the AWS SDK looking for available EBS volumes in the specified region and deletes them.
Contributions:1 release, 122 commits, 77 pushes in 4 months
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