Alexander Foley
Sr. Staff Engineer at Tenstorrent
Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Foley is a Sr. Staff Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building resilient infrastructure, DevSecOps pipelines, and cloud-native deployments across startups and defense contractors. He has driven cost reductions and reliability improvements—most notably cutting cloud spend by ~30% at Sporttrade—while architecting hybrid on-prem/cloud platforms with Terraform, Kubernetes, and automation tooling. A disciplined, hands-on operator, he moves from low-level VM hardening and CI/CD pipelines to higher-level SRE strategy and incident automation. His background blends mechanical engineering rigor and a CS master’s with practical security and simulation experience from aerospace and defense projects. Known for diving early into hard problems and staying until they’re production-stable, he pairs a “modern warrior” mindset with collaborative leadership. He’s driven by making the world better “one line of code at a time,” often publishing automation utilities and improving team efficiency across languages and toolchains.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science at Drexel UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Syracuse University
English
Github Skills (17)
text-editor10
neovim10
lua10
vim10
api10
nvim10
vim-plugin9
extensibility9
usability8
editing7
c-programming6
intelligent3
react2
python1
nextjs1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
foleyfactor/foleyfactor.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Personal site
Contributions:1 PR, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
react
foleyfactor/wifi_monitor
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16868 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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