Biography
She writes, and sometimes performs, music under the alias
leila phelps.
She also wrote and performed with
Dumpster Dick
and Seafoam in my
Swimsuit
Alexa is, slowly, working on a video game, which she sometimes writes
about.
Occasionally, she builds furniture, and even more occasionally writes
about it.
Alexa works on BeautifulSun, a
mobile-app that uses weather data to predict the relative beauty of future sunrises and sunsets. It can
be downloaded here for android devices, and will be available
via the apple-store eventually.
From time to time, she writes refrigerator-poetry.
note: this website is entirely html & css, but is still modestly interactive.
For example, hover over a job-title under the Employment history section. Want to see
how it's done?
check out the code.
Employment history
Founding Engineer, Speakeasy Development
June 2022 through August 2023
Lead/owned/designed/developed infrastructure (terraform, helm), frontend (ts, car, next.js), and
backend (go), library (java, golang), 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 a few FTP/AWS lambda/etc pipelines). Released and maintained AWS
infrastructure for software products using terraform; built and maintained ci/cd pipelines; reviewed
code; updated legacy systems & mitigated dependency hell; 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 (.net 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, including critical parts of the
CCPA-compliance implementation. Maintained and built data-models, ETL pipelines, and other
data-oriented duties.
Backend Developer, Fetch Rewards
January 2019 through June 2019
Developed and maintained back-end services.
Senior Developer, QBE
May 2016 through May 2018
Lead small teams; mentored more junior developers; designed & developed fullstack applications
around experimental technology (IoT,
blockchain, various
AI models, VR & AR, satellite imagery, EV battery modeling, etc) to produced data-driven business
reports and guidance.