Summary
Alexandra Konrad is a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead based in the Greater Munich area with a decade of experience building scalable search, telemetry and security-oriented systems. She currently drives architecture and delivery at Elastic, having progressed from Senior Engineer to Principal while leading teams and shaping observability practices. Her background spans search engine core development, large-scale crawling and content analytics, and production-grade preprocessing pipelines for sentiment and topic analysis. Early work in high-performance visualization and signal processing at Siemens and research institutes gives her a strong systems and performance mindset uncommon in product-facing engineers. She blends hands-on C++, Python and backend expertise with leadership in mentoring and cross-team coordination, often bridging research-grade algorithms to robust, maintainable production services. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, secure implementations that scale.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at Udacity (https://www.ai-class.com)
Successfully completed, with distinction, M101P, MongoDB for Developers in the top 6% of all students with a score of 95.0%, Successfully completed, with distinction, M101P, MongoDB for Developers in the top 6% of all students with a score of 95.0% at 10gen Education (http://education.10gen.com/)
Diploma of M.S.E. in Systems Programming, Computer Engineering, Diploma of M.S.E. in Systems Programming, Computer Engineering at Donetsk National Technical University
English, German, Russian, Ukrainian