Summary
Alexander Kahan is a software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, currently contributing to product and platform work at Sublime Security. He has held senior engineering roles at Elastic, Endgame, and ZeroFOX, where he focused on Python-based APIs, distributed services, and AWS-backed architectures. Comfortable owning services end-to-end, he has shipped well-tested code in Agile environments and operated CI/CD pipelines and monitoring for production systems. Trained in both computer science and mathematics at UMBC, he combines analytical rigor with practical engineering to solve security and infrastructure challenges. Notably, his career reflects steady progression from R&D intern to senior engineer, signaling both deep technical competence and adaptability across fast-moving security startups.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UMBC