# Alex Kira > Engineering @ LangChain Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexkira Technology leader with 20+ years of experience in full lifecycle software development and distributed systems. Experience with Agile development, mentoring engineers, and leading complex end-to-end projects. Specialties: * Distributed Systems * Data Management and Workflow Orchestration * Python / Java / Go * Elixir (author of the Exq library for Elixir: http://github.com/akira/exq - 1.3k github stars, 1.5 million downloads). * Other development interests: Platforms, AI, ML, LLMs, Agents ## Work Experience ### Engineer @ LangChain Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Platform & data storage for LangSmith AI Observability ### Principal Software Engineer @ Ramp Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 * Engineer on the the big data orchestration team. The team built and managed Netflix's big data orchestration platform, Maestro, used by thousands of data scientists, data engineers, and ML engineers to power their workflows. * Rearchitect the data orchestration platform to a distributed and scalable system, Maestro, built on Spring Boot, Conductor and CockroachDB. * Lead subprojects with partners including the ML/Metaflow team and Titus compute. This included architecture, development, and alignment with the various partners. * Area-lead for the distributed systems design interview track. Overhauled the interview process for the data organization. ### Staff Engineer / Tech Lead @ Uber Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area * Team lead and founding engineer on the Data Workflow Management team. The team grew and managed the data orchestration platform at Uber which was used company-wide (3k+ users). * Re-architected the data orchestration platform into a multi-tenant, highly available, distributed system, capable of operating at Uber’s scale. * Enhanced engineering brand of the team: gave conference talks including Strata Data Conference, SF Big Analytics Meetup, also authored an Uber engineering blog on the team's work . * Engineering lead for data-wide programs for continuously improving reliability of data systems. Established reliability best practices across data teams, influenced/enabled teams to effectively adopt these, resulting in significantly improved infrastructure stability. * Drove technical direction and vision of the teams products, while working in a cross-functional manner with management, PMs, and stakeholders to set team's architecture, roadmap and OKRs. ### Senior Engineer (Contract) @ Telmate Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 * Implemented features and functionality for SpinalQ, a multithreaded JRuby application responsible for the company's ElasticSearch data ingestion pipeline. * Overhauled the company's ElasticSearch cluster for fault tolerance and performance through cluster configuration, query selection, monitoring, alerting, and replication setup. * Developed functionality for Command Center, a communication platform used by facility staff built on top of JRuby, Rails, and React.js. * Environment: JRuby / ElasticSearch / Rails / JavaScript / React.js / MySQL ### Senior Infra Engineer (Contract) @ Apple Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 * Devops for brand new automated server infrastructure for the Apple Online Store for mobile * Lead development of a zero downtime deployment tool along with a deployment / status dashboard using Ruby and Sinatra * Spearheaded infrastructure implementation for metrics, monitoring, and alerting services using Sensu and Graphite * Environment: Puppet, MCollective, Ruby, Go, AngularJS, Redis, Dashing, Sensu, Graphite ### Founding Engineer / Advisor @ LoLo Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Remote * Lead development of LoLo, a credit card linked loyalty site built to help local businesses retain and reward loyal customers. * Implemented integration with various third party services including Cardspring, SubtleData, Stripe Payments, Dropbox, and Facebook Connect * Sole developer of the LoLo iOS application and API backend to allow redemption and usage from iPhone. * Environment: Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, MySQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Git, Stripe Payments, Cardspring API, Dropbox API, IOS, Facebook / Twitter APIs. ### Senior Software Engineer (Contract) @ Vitrue / Oracle Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Remote Consulting and implementation services for Vitrue, a cloud-based social marketing company (acquired by Oracle). Provided research and consulting on concurrent development with actor based systems such as Akka. * Participated in development on a concurrent social media adapter for consuming Facebook data, written in JRuby and Akka. * Lead integration effort for Virtue's social commerce platform based on Spree Commerce and RoR. * Environment: Ruby, JRuby, Scala, Rails, Erlang, Sinatra, Akka, Spree Commerce, Backbone.js, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, Social Media APIs (Facebook, Twitter). ### Founding Engineer @ PromoterBee Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | Greater Atlanta Area / Remote Early stage startup targeting the restaurant industry - offers a self managed suite of products aimed at publishing promotions and managing brand awareness. * Worked directly with founders to conceptualize new features, determine development effort, and select technology needed to implement a solution. * Led development on PromoterBee Biz, a full suite application targeting restaurants, which provides management of promotions, social media monitoring, couponing, and distribution to various social media outlets and sites. * Environment: Ruby / Rails, MySQL, Amazon AWS/EC2/S3, iPhone SDK, Objective C, JSON, GIT, Nginx, Passenger, Rspec, Capistrano, Chef, Stripe, Redis / Resque, Jenkins, CSS, jQuery, Ajax, Social Media APIs (Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Optimus Solutions Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 * Provided full life cycle development and consulting services to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a financial budgeting system used to track spending for the entire APHIS branch of USDA (project worth over 1.5 million in services). * Led and participated in client design meetings for requirement gathering and analysis. * Conducted stress tests and optimized system for performance. * Environment: Java, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, JUnit, DBUnit, Ruby, Oracle 10g Application Server, Oracle 9i Database, Ant, Ruby, CVS, Subversion. ### Software Developer @ CheckFree Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 * Developed new features and functionality for Bank of America's industry-leading Online Bill Pay product. * Analyzed security vulnerabilities in the Bill Pay product and recommended potential solutions. * Environment: Java, AS/400, Solaris, JServ, JMS, EJB, Servlets, JSP, Web Services, XML, WebLogic 8.1, Linux, Oracle, DB2, Ant, SourceSafe, CVS. ### Software Engineer, Core Platform Group @ Air2Web Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 * Developed new functionality for the Air2Web Mobile Internet Platform, a wireless development platform built using J2EE and XML technologies with a web services architecture. * Tuned performance and memory usage of the Mobile Internet Platform. * Environment: Java 1.3, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, XML, JMS, JDBC, WebLogic, Solaris, Oracle 8i, Ant, CVS ## Education ### MS in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### BS in Computer Science University of Miami ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexkira --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexkira JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexkira/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05