# Alex Lyon

> Software Engineer at Disney Streaming

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexlyon

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Disney Streaming
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Developing native clients for Hulu and Disney+ on devices like the PS5.

### Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Engineer, Digital IP/Circuit Chip Design @ Samsung SARC | ACL
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States

### SDE Intern @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California (Virtual)

### SDE Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California
Designed and programmed a tool/framework in Rust and Python to automate internal data processing pipelines using AWS (in particular Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, S3, etc.) for visual search.  Pipelines could be specified through a configuration file that was easy to read, write, and understand.  By the end of the internship, the project was in use in production.

### Course Producer for CSCI 356 (Introduction to Computer Systems) @ USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Los Angeles, California
Essentially an undergraduate TA.

### Independent Contractor @ Baidu USA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Los Angeles, California
Continuing my work from my summer internship at Baidu USA, focusing on improving and adding more utilities to MesaBox.

### Security Research Intern @ Baidu USA
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA
Intern at Baidu X-Lab.  Worked on MesaLock Linux, a Linux distribution seeking to replace the majority of commonly used code written in memory-unsafe programming languages with equivalent code in memory-safe languages (mostly Rust).  Primarily responsible for MesaBox (think BusyBox but in Rust).  First undergraduate intern at Baidu X-Lab (all other interns and employees had earned a PhD or were in the process of earning one).

### Software Engineering Intern @ Vera Consulting
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
Created and established remote web servers; developed website using Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap and PostgreSQL


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science (Games)
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in East Asian Languages and Cultures (Japanese)
University of Southern California

### The Harker School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-lyon-66598b88
- GitHub: https://github.com/Arcterus

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Last updated: 2026-04-11