Alex Robson

Senior engineering leader with over 20 years of experience. Recognized for building cloud-native platforms, leading globally distributed engineering organizations, and delivering quantified business outcomes across startup, growth, and enterprise environments. Track record spans VP and Director of Engineering roles to Staff-level IC work, with demonstrated impact in infrastructure modernization, cost reduction, revenue growth, and security/compliance.

Senior Staff Engineer at EvolutionIQ (2025-11 – 2026-05)

Project discontinued

• Delivered in-depth cost analysis, architectural plans and proposals to reduce cloud spend by 2M+
• Consolidated disparate product's data pipelines into a single, configuration driven data pipeline

Staff Software Engineer at Grow Therapy (2025-01 – 2025-11)

• Achieved HIPAA posture improvements by automating mapping of PII/PHI storage and collaboration with security to harden access
• Expanded operational capacity, resilience, and availability through delivery of analysis, RFC, and project plans to migrate from RDS to Aurora
• Built observability, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks for kubernetes clusters and databases

Platform Engineer at Rownd Inc. (2023-11 – 2024-10)

Reduction in force

• Enabled deployments to AWS GovCloud for USAF pilot program by hardening system and delivering AWS EKS infrastructure automation
• Led SOC2 certification attainment and improved security for commercial and USAF deployments

Director, Core Engineering at Stack Overflow (2022-01 – 2023-05)

Reduction in force

• Improved developer experience and supported cloud-native migration efforts by building Core Engineering to 18 globally distributed engineers
• Identified and eliminated security risks in legacy build and deploy tooling and mitigated impact of unauthorized access due to Circle CI security breach
• Formulated replace and retire strategy, resolving long-standing security and privacy risks

Senior Staff Engineer, Group Technical Lead at Zendesk (2020-01 – 2022-01)

• Led architecture and implementation of a CPQ solution, increasing enterprise customer spend by 15%
• Improved API response time 100-fold by leading design and implementation of distributed architecture

Vice President of Engineering at npm, Inc (2017-04 – 2020-01)

• Led engineering organization through key changes resulting in acquisition by GitHub
• Designed and delivered a cloud-native enterprise platform, driving 21% revenue growth
• Achieved a 70% decline in system incidents and a 35% cut in operating costs through improvements to system resilience, infrastructure automation, and modernization

Senior Software Engineer/Architect at Valify Marketplace (2016-08 – 2017-04)

• Reduced infrastructure costs 40% by migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes on AWS
• Launched a zero-downtime deployment pipeline to enable disruption-free continuous delivery

Software Architect at Planview LeanKit (2013-08 – 2016-08)

• Reduced feature delivery cycle from 3 months to 4 weeks through implementation of a CI/CD pipeline and improved developer experience by creating custom tooling
• Cut annual infrastructure costs by $1.1M through delivery of event-driven, push-based architecture

Software Architect at Asurion (2013-03 – 2013-08)

• Unlocked entry into multi-billion dollar international markets by delivery of new platform architecture
• Saved $200M annually through consolidation of technology stacks and system architectures

Vice President of Product Development at appendTo, LLC (2012-01 – 2013-03)

• Drove a 33% increase in professional services through client retention and satisfaction
• Accelerated organizational scale-up, delivering 115% revenue growth over a 6 month period

Senior Software Architect at Terenine Technology Solutions (2010-08 – 2011-12)

• Architected scalable solutions that underpinned a $20M increase in revenue
• Shrank defect rates by 70% via process improvement, staff upskilling, and automated testing

Head of Software Development at Sommet Group (2008-02 – 2010-05)

• Launched a self-service portal that grew customer base 178%, grew revenue by $28.5M, while reducing operational overhead by 30%
• Implemented lean and agile methodologies, cutting feature development cycle by 85%

Software Consultant at ComFrame, VACO Technology, Compuware, XPO Designs, LLC (2003 – 2008)

Early Career

Systems Programmer/Analyst at Jacobs Sverdrup, Aerospace Testing Alliance, Phoenix USA, Inc. (2003 – 2008)

Highlights include winning the Mars Rover Parachute development contract for Johnson Space Center, delivering an inter-agency intelligence sharing platform for Tennessee law enforcement, and leading technology innovation projects that were directly responsible for a 25 M+ increase in annual revenue.

Master of Business Administration in Technology Management – Colorado Technical University

Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems – Tennessee Tech University

Associate of Arts in Computer Science – Pellissippi State Community College