Alexander Pentland
Infrastructure Engineer at Railway
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Pentland is an infrastructure engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, observable systems for both startups and large platforms. Currently at Railway after a stint at Figma, he previously focused on observability tooling at City Storage Systems and helped scale backend services at Amazon and AWS, including work on Glacier and Alexa. He blends systems-level engineering with a strong background in software development across Java, Python, and embedded interfaces from his Rensselaer roots. Known for pragmatic tooling and operational rigor, he prefers non-crypto projects and brings a track record of improving reliability and visibility in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (77)
spotify10
compiler10
rust10
lucene10
search-engine10
full-text-search10
tantivy10
rust-lang9
lock-free9
tree9
connection-pool9
concurrent9
crate9
database8
developer-tools8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pentlander/sasquach
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:52 commits, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 10 months
pentlander/jiggy
Dec 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:1 push, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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