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Alexa built and maintains BeautifulSun, a mobile-app that uses weather data to predict the relative beauty
of future sunrises and sunsets, for a friend. A pre-release version can be downloaded here for android devices; full releases to both the
apple-store and the google play-store will come eventually.
Occasionally, she writes about building furniture and other hobbies.
From time to time, she writes refrigerator-poetry.
She writes, and sometimes performs, music under the alias
leila phelps.
She also wrote and performed with
Dumpster Dick
and Seafoam in my
Swimsuit
Employment history
Sr. Software Developer, Liberty Mutual
Sept 2024 through present
Coming soon...
Founding Engineer, Speakeasy Development
June 2022 through August 2023
Lead/owned/designed/developed infrastructure (Terraform, Helm), frontend (TS, CRE, Next.js), and
backend (Go, Postgres, Redis), library (Java, Go), code-generation (Go, TS, Python, C#, Ruby, Rust,
Java) features for core product. Owned relationships with customers.
DevOps Engineer, New York Public Radio
January 2022 through June 2022
Worked with data/analytics team to support their data/infrastructure needs
(AWS Redshift as well as FTP/AWS Lambda/etc pipelines). Implemented and maintained
infrastructure for software products (AWS, Terraform); built and maintained CI/CD pipelines
(CircleCI, Python, SaltStack); reviewed code (JS, Vue); updated legacy systems & mitigated
dependency hell (Python); promoted code & infrastructure hygiene & best-practices.
Lead Software Engineer, QBE
August 2020 through October 2021
Designed/managed (worked with business stakeholders to coordinate requirements, timelines, etc.),
architected (designed, deployed, and maintained infrastructure and cloud resources using Azure cloud
based on the stakeholder needs), developed (Dotnet Core, TS/React), deployed (CI/CD, etc.), and
maintained (bug/feature triage & implementation, etc.) fullstack applications.
Technical Lead, Nvisia
July 2019 through August 2020
Designed, developed, deploy, and maintained back-end services (C#, VB.Net, Azure Devops, Azure),
including critical parts of the CCPA-compliance implementation. Maintained and built data-models
(MSSQL), ETL pipelines, and other data-oriented duties.
Backend Developer, Fetch Rewards
January 2019 through June 2019
Developed and maintained back-end services (Java, MongoDB, Jenkins, AWS).
Senior Developer, QBE
May 2016 through May 2018
Lead small teams; mentored more junior developers; designed & developed fullstack applications
(Python, Tensorflow, JS, Angular, Java, C#, Go) around experimental technology (IoT, blockchain, ML,
VR & AR, satellite imagery, EV battery modeling, etc) to produced data-driven business reports and
guidance.
A full resume can be found here.