Summary
Alexander Shelmire is a seasoned technology leader with 10 years of experience building SaaS products, leading cross-functional engineering teams, and shipping full-stack systems using Ruby on Rails, React, Node, and AWS. Currently Senior Director of US Companion Animal Engineering at MWI Animal Health, he blends hands-on development, AI/NLP familiarity, and strategic architecture to align technical roadmaps with business outcomes. Previously he led platform and mobile teams at AllyDVM, driving major Rails upgrades, high-volume messaging features, and cloud region deployments that directly boosted revenue. His background in linguistic data collection and annotation tools surfaces in a practical expertise for ML and NLP pipelines, and he holds an MS in Computer Science from University of Colorado Boulder. Based in Philadelphia, he is equally comfortable in deep technical trenches and in scaling engineering organizations.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Philosophy, B.A., Philosophy at University of Southern California
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Computer Science, Computer Science at Udemy, Coursera, Udacity