Summary
Alexander Reifert is a Lead DevOps Engineer based in the Denver metro area with a decade of experience building resilient, scalable cloud systems. He has led cloud and deployment architecture at Prologis after driving large AWS migrations and code-driven pipelines using Jenkins, Chef, and CloudFormation at OppenheimerFunds. His background spans embedded and avionics-adjacent projects to enterprise cloud, giving him a rare blend of low-level systems understanding and production-scale automation expertise. Comfortable scripting in Perl, Python, Groovy and shell, he consistently automates manual processes into repeatable CI/CD workflows. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, infrastructure-as-code solutions that reduce operational risk while enabling rapid delivery. Outside the cloud role, his early work on autonomous aerial platforms and custom RTOS development hints at a strong systems-thinking approach uncommon in typical DevOps profiles.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at Iowa State University
Engineering, Engineering at Muscatine Community College