Alexandra Strong

Alexandra Strong is a skilled professional with expertise in system administration, DevOps, infrastructure and site operations, back-end web application development, and data mining, having worked in small teams of product-focused engineers.

Her roles have involved designing, configuring, implementing, and maintaining server builds, monitoring and triaging production site defects, stability, and performance, developing applications, tools, and data warehouses, creating prototypes, updating existing application code for new technologies, and performing data mining, analysis, and reporting.

Her technical specialties include proficiency in Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and FreeBSD, along with programming languages like Python, Ruby, C++, PHP, and SQL.

Furthermore, Alexandra is experienced in frameworks like Django and Sinatra, and tools such as Chef, MySQL, Git, CVS, SVN, Nagios, Cacti, SiteScope, Capistrano, RabbitMQ, Memcached, Redis, JMX, ElasticSearch, Solr, Cassandra, Celery, Thrift, HA Proxy, Apache, Nginx, Thin, Unicorn, ImageMagick, GhostScript, FFMpeg, CloudFuse, Bundler, ApacheBench, Fabric, and Upstart.

She pursued her education by studying Biology and Philosophy for her B.S. degree at Randolph College.

Alexandra's professional experience includes working as a Site Reliability Engineer at Twitter, Systems Engineer at DreamHost, Systems Administrator at Seismic Games, Software Engineer in the Server Team at Wiredrive, Python Developer in the Infrastructure Team at Mahalo, Technical Services Specialist in the Systems Engineering Team at Walt Disney Internet Group, and Programmer/Analyst I in the Computer Information Services Group at UCLA Anderson School of Management.