Alex Finkel Email & Phone Number

Clifton Hill, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Our Platform team is growing its scope, taking on two mission-critical projects for the business. These projects will allow Stile to provide advanced data analytics to governments and school districts, and ensure the safety of US customer's data by hosting it locally in the US.In addition, I've taken on a second job as co-parent, working for a new employer.

As head of engineering, my focus was enabling the business to grow. I achieved this by revamping our sprint structure to coordinate multiple projects and teams, training ambitious engineers to become managers, developing a new engineering performance assessment rubric, and encouraging initiative by communicating regularly about what's going on and where.

Melbourne, VIC Australia

I'm responsible for building out our product engineering department to meet the needs of our growing business as we expand in California.I managed our team through the pandemic and out the other end stronger than we started. I'm now focused on achieving the hiring, promotions and training we need to build up to four independent development teams from a.

Abbotsford, VIC, Australia

In this role, I worked primarily on formalising our SRE practices, establishing an SLO, developing a technical roadmap and practices around a manageable oncall rotation where we regularly learn from our mistakes.

Abbotsford, VIC, Australia

I came on with no knowledge of Ruby, React or even JavaScript, and quickly learnt to develop product features across our stack in those languages. I enjoyed finding ways to fix things and make our platform easier for our users, developed patterns for our new type-safe storage of student data and to encourage fast and clear code for defining permissions in.

Sunnyvale, California

Software engineer in site reliability. Delivered new data pipelines and improved reliability of corporate DNS, DHCP and other network services.

I worked primarily with the irrepressible Sam Forster on developing RNA-eXpress, a Java application that analysed RNA results from next generation sequencing to provide a differential gene expression report; and also used several algorithms to identify novel transcripts. We were able to publish it here.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General, H1 Average (So Far)

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, H1 Average

Masters by coursework and research (approx 1 year of each). Research project was on using machine learning to recognise WiFi fingerprints.

Diploma Of Informatics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics