Summary
Alexandra Howland is a versatile software engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, full-stack development, and product-focused engineering at startups and established firms. Currently at Anduril Industries, she brings a hardware-to-JS perspective honed through prior roles at Oculus VR, Vnomics, and Alstom, tackling everything from onboard signaling software to VR quality and fleet telematics. Comfortable across breadboards and browsers, she’s built systems that bridge low-level embedded constraints and user-facing web interfaces. Her career shows a pattern of stepping into ambiguous, early-stage problems and delivering pragmatic, maintainable solutions. Based in Irvine, CA, she combines deep systems thinking with practical Linux/package management and a knack for turning legacy mystery into documented, replaceable systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Software Engineering, BS, Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
French