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Alexa Anderson


Professional Experience

Lex Media / A

January 2024
Director of Technology
As founding director of technology, I pioneer and implement people and process management of Product and Development, institute agile development practices, formalize system of metrics and measurements, and oversee progress of company technological initiatives. Our technology has caused 100% YOY growth in sales, visits, and engagement, visualization dashboard enabling decisions, and more than 100% increase in product delivery speed in 6 months. * Define and institude company-wide adoption of Agile product development * Define Product Delivery Procedures increasing visibilty and speed * Oversee the development of web applications, web sites, and tooling by a development team of 3-5 technical experts. * Instituted and Engineering Blog for awareness and outreach
Technologies Used: Leadership, Networking, Publishing, Processing, Software Infrastructure, Management, PHP

Lex Media Software

Austin, TX
January 2024
Technology Partner
Technology partner responsible for website launch, development of in-house tooling, analytics, andreporting. Completed a desktop publication engine in Ruby and JavaScript, reusable virtual private server inShell script, and desktop applications in Electron. Designed and implemented web application architecturesleading to initial launch and sales using PHP, Ruby and JavaScript.
Technologies Used: Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby (Rails), Linux, Leadership, Agile Development, DevOps

ADP

Senior Software Engineer
April 2023 January 2024
Senior Software Engineer
Develop a JavaScript monorepo alongside startup engineering organization to successfully implement product requirements and bug fixes. Transition codebase after the startup was acquired by ADP.
Technologies Used: Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, SQL, JavaScript, Docker, CI/CD

Homebase

Houston, TX
August 2021 April 2023
Sr. Software Engineer
Tech lead for a 5 developer feature team. Collaborated with product and design to create specifications for a single-page application redesign. Facilitated engineering department efforts to add visibility to the CI/CD build pipeline. Engineering lead for Sales Tax initiative to integrate sales tax into our SaaS product.
Technologies Used: Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, SQL, JavaScript, Ruby (Rails), Linux, Leadership, Agile Development, Rspec, Capybara, Google, Slack, Stripe, APIs

Sparefoot

Austin, TX
April 2019 July 2019
Software Engineer II
Sparefoot is the industry leading self-storage marketplace and technology company. As a software engineer at SpareFoot, I was responsible for full-stack enterprise features utilizing PHP, JavaScript, Docker, and React. Migrate consumer sites from PHP/Backbone/jQuery to Node.js and React Develop high-traffic consumer and internal applications as part of a feature team Research and implement system-wide standardization of logging and metrics using Datadog and Envoy
Technologies Used: Web Development, Obect-oriented Programming, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, Docker, CI/CD, Git, Scrum Master

Integrated Alliance

Denton, TX
Head Trainer
 Managed training department of three trainers and up to thirty trainees  Introduced quantitative agent effectiveness scale saving the company over $20,000 yearly  Overhauled full training portfolio in under two weeks to meet revised client standards  Managed staff of up to fifty employees as needed
Technologies Used: People Management, Adult Education, Course Planning, Instructional Delivery

Education

Viking Education 
Software Engineering 2017
University of North Texas 
Mechanical Engineering 2016
Austin Community College 
Associate's of Science in Biology 2013

Certifications

Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master

Community

Alexbrady Organization
Board of Directors, 2020 - 2024
Women Who Code
Community Coding Organizer, 2016 - 2017
Austin Civic Wind Ensemble
Board of Directors, 2018 - 2019