Alexandra Hernandez
Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandra Hernandez is a cloud-focused Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of professional experience and 6+ years specializing in designing and scaling distributed systems on GCP. She has a strong track record at The New York Times of migrating services to cloud-native architectures (e.g., Datastore/Redis → Bigtable), building GKE data pipelines, and integrating ML models into production Go services for real-time recommendations and contextual ad targeting. Skilled in containerization, CI/CD automation, and performance tuning, she has improved P95 latency and system resiliency during high-stakes events like mid-elections. Alexandra also mentors teammates, documents complex architectures, and enforces brand-safety through automated pipelines, reflecting a blend of engineering depth and operational ownership. Her background from Flatiron School and prior work building multi-language testing tools and deployment CLIs shows comfort across stacks and pragmatic problem solving beyond core backend services.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International/Global Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), International/Global Studies at University of South FloridaSoftware Engineering Immersive, Software Engineering Immersive at Flatiron School
English, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (3)
security6
golang5
react3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nytimes/go-compare-expressions
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 9 commits in 11 months
Ms-Alex/collections_practice_vol_2-nyc-web-060418
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:300 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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