Alexander S. Email & Phone Number

United States

San Jose, CA, US

• DevOps & Infrastructure-as-Code Developer Advocacy team member, producing engaging labs, code, blogs, videos, documentation, and more for engineers worldwide.
• Led Engineering Connect meetings for Cisco’s entire Data Center portfolio, bridging the Engineering and Business units for collaboration on APIs, docs, sandboxes, labs, etc.
• Vital member of the AI Tiger Team and Design Insights Group (DIG) AI teams.
• Co-founded the Cisco Networking APIs Technical Advisory Group to drive programmability adoption.
• Conceived and developed the successful the ‘DevOps Shop’ video series (10,000+ views) and the extremely popular AI Daily Dose bot.
• Presented at Cisco Live events (US, APJC, EMEA), educating the developer community.

San Jose, CA, US

• Core member of the Developer Success and IoT teams, providing education and support.
• Contributed to and maintained DevNet’s site and offerings, including code samples, documentation, labs, courses, sandboxes, blogs, and more.
• Presented at both Cisco Live and Cisco Impact on development-related topics.
• Cisco Blogs, Cisco Community, and Cisco Code Exchange published author.
• Served as a liaison between the internal Product and Engineering teams and the developers in the Community, facilitating an efficient two-way flow of feedback.
• Provided support to developers worldwide on how to leverage Cisco’s APIs and code-related tools to enhance their products and work lives.

Cupertino, California, US

• Member of the fast-paced and Agile-based Developer Insights team.
• Developed automation scripts in Python, improving reporting for internal teams.
• Contributed to front and back-end systems, including APIs, databases, and automation.
• Monitored critical systems and triaged issues with real-time monitoring software, including AppNeta, AppDynamics and Site24x7.
• Created custom dashboards, widgets, and client-facing apps, with JSON and XML data, and managed version control of these with GitHub.
• Leveraged Splunk and Python libraries (Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib) for data analysis.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Completed an on-site immersive coding apprenticeship for skilled military veterans, culminating in an internship at Sprout Social.
• Developed and maintained full-stack applications using both Python/Django and JavaScript/React to emphasize versatility and optimize workflows.
• Engaged in frequent pair programming with fellow junior developers to enhance collaboration and code quality.
• Participated in weekly code reviews with senior developers and a program manager to refine and improve code standards.
• Balanced frontend and backend responsibilities, working with databases and UI development.

• Led Managed Services for a nationwide network supporting state and federal agencies, as well as private firms, ensuring rapid outage diagnosis and resolution.
• Coordinated daily stand-up meetings with department heads using Agile methodology and managed projects with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Maintained a comprehensive database for emergency management, employing data science techniques (Python, SQL, XML, JSON) for data integrity.
• Identified and resolved a critical system bug, preventing a potential nationwide outage and saving the company over $175,000.
• Conducted daily security checks, weekly patches, and monthly vulnerability assessments; integrated PRTG for real-time infrastructure monitoring.
• Prepared weekly infrastructure and security reports for emergency management directors of Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

Catania, IT

- Hardened personal and small business devices and networks with anti-malware, firewalls, Intrusion Detection / Prevention, and virtualization solutions.- Performed daily malware scans and monthly vulnerability scans with Kali Linux (Zed Attack Proxy) and MBSA. Thankfully, we never lost significant data or a computer to attack. - Built and managed websites.

- University professor of English for the Technical Sciences and Engineering.- Instructed working professionals from the private sector in Business English at language centers. - Specialized in education technology, including interactive whiteboards. - First to set up cloud-based access to learning resources at the university level in my area.

London, GB

I was a supervisor over and an instructor of the collection and analysis of intelligence.

Diploma In Full-Stack Software Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Network Systems And Data Communications

Associate Of Science - As, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) (With Honors), Intelligence Studies

Associate Of Applied Science (A.A.S) (With Honors), Intelligence Operations

Master Of Education - Med

Management