Alexandra Dalton
Director In Engineering, DevOps at EquityZen
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandra Dalton is a Director in Engineering with 11 years of experience leading DevOps and backend engineering teams in NYC, currently heading DevOps at EquityZen. She has moved rapidly through senior technical and leadership roles across startups and established organizations—shaping cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and production systems at places like The Atlantic, Salesforce (Heroku), and Airspace Data. Her background in computer science and biology and long research experience in computational genomics give her a data-driven, analytical approach to engineering problems and a comfort with complex, regulated domains. She’s equally at home shipping Terraform-driven AWS architectures and defining engineering processes that scale teams and observability. Known for blending hands-on execution with strategic stewardship, Alexandra brings startup grit from co-founding a stealth venture together with enterprise-grade delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Biology, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science & Biology at Dartmouth College
Spanish, Sign languages
Github Skills (8)
heroku8
ruby7
rails7
data-uri4
nodejs2
boost2
javascript2
http2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aedalton/dot-emacs
Jul 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years
aedalton/utils
Oct 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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