Summary
Alexandra Vera is a software engineer in San Francisco with a decade of professional experience and 4+ years focused on building scalable full-stack web applications and reliable systems with an emphasis on AI and systems design. She combines hands-on development in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and C# with strong testing and quality engineering instincts honed across roles in QA, product migrations, and modernizing legacy .NET projects. Alexandra has taught and mentored early-career engineers as a Senior Instructor at COOP, translating complex analytics and engineering concepts into practical skills and job-ready portfolios. Her experience spans startups and large organizations—from leading user acceptance testing during platform migrations to converting legacy codebases to SDK-style projects to improve maintainability and build performance. She’s passionate about building measurable business impact through reliable, maintainable systems and brings an unusual mix of public-health-informed product empathy and game-dev creativity to engineering challenges. Currently at Formation, she continues to explore systems design and AI tooling while mentoring the next generation of engineers.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Public Health, Bachelor of Science - BS, Public Health at San Francisco State University
Software Engineering Bootcamp, Full Stack Web Development, Software Engineering Bootcamp, Full Stack Web Development at General Assembly
English, Spanish