# Alex Hernsdorf

> Staff Software Engineer at Verily

Location: Ithaca, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexhernsdorf

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Verily
Jan 2024 – Present
Technical lead for Verily patient applications:
- Drive technical strategy for 4 engineering teams

### Senior Software Engineer @ Verily
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Technical Lead: Substance Use (2 yr)
- Led a team building web and native mobile applications for patients experiencing substance use disorder and the care team that supports them
- Responsibilities: Full stack development, engineering leadership, data pipelines

Technical Lead: Patient Enrollment (1 yr)
- Led a team to build the first member experience as part of Verily's company-wide pivot to a shared research and care strategy (https://verily.com/perspectives/one-verily-forward)
- Responsibilities: Full stack development, engineering leadership, project management

### Software Engineer @ Verily
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021
Frontend technical lead: Lab Software (2 yr)
- Scaled Verily's LIMS to handle millions of samples, multiple parallel research programs, and a FDA certification that unlocked Verily's Healthy at Work COVID-19 testing program (https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295798/verily-healthy-at-work-testing-reopen-coronavirus)
- Responsibilities: Full stack development, data pipelines, engineering leadership, user research, ux design, (internal) customer service

### Software Engineer @ Helix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Founding member of internal team dedicated to improving lab operations and efficiency
- Lead frontend development of internal tool used for continuous review of all lab data
(built using React, Redux, Webpack, Apollo)
- Rewrote backend of aforementioned tool as first GraphQL-driven microservice at Helix
and established best practices for backend and frontend development with GraphQL
- Developed CI pipeline for gathering and reporting automated test outputs
- Wrote core Go library for interfacing against external lab information API
- Lead architecture and development of a fault-tolerant job queue for daily transfer of
terabytes of data
- Supported stable release of new partner-facing features on interdisciplinary teams

### Environmental Consulting Intern @ TRC Solutions
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- Negotiated meetings with clients, planned site visits, and provided writing for over 100
pages of a technical report on the environmental history of an airport


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Microbiology
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering
Cornell University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ahernsdorf
- Website: https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~aherns/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29