Alex Leverington
Co-Founder of Get Acorn
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- Dallas/Fort Worth Area
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Alex Leverington's Overview
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- Co-Founder at Oak Tree Labs
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- Engineer, Advisor at TapMap
- Software Engineer at Highform, Inc.
- Senior Application Developer at MileMeter
- Consultant at Squeejee
- Senior Application Developer at HRsmart
- Senior Developer at SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
- Project Engineer at Architel
- Senior Developer at Managed Petroleum Group, Inc.
- Consultant at Independent Consulting
- Tier 1-3 Support Engineer at IP Communications
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Alex Leverington's Summary
Created datacenter "bandwidth pooling"
Altered BitTorrent protocol to support rights management and 2m+ concurrent downloaders
Developed award winning 'PodServe', featured in INC Magazine
Developed custom google-maps tile generator for graphing density of location-based events (aka heatmap)
More than 6 years experience with datacenter-scale architecture and software engineering
More than 10 years experience developing software and support systems
Specialties
Datacenter Scalability, Distributed Computing, Metrics, Regulatory Compliance
Ruby, C, low-level protocol design, RDBMS, key/value stores
Alex Leverington's Experience
Engineer, Advisor
TapMap
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry
March 2010 – January 2011 (11 months)
Developed analytics storage and reporting service for tracking location-based barcode scanning events. Developed SOA which integrates with POS systems and exposes product inventory and pricing.
Software Engineer
Highform, Inc.
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Higher Education industry
August 2009 – January 2010 (6 months)
Worked as a consultant to rebuild "findmytext.com", implementing new features such as student-to-student book trading, and the ability to lookup course material requirements based on student schedule.
Senior Application Developer
MileMeter
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Insurance industry
January 2009 – December 2009 (1 year)
Ruby on Rails, RabbitMQ. Application development for public and administrative applications. Managed and developed several components which generated reports to comply with Texas regulations for insurers.
Consultant
Squeejee
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
October 2008 – January 2009 (4 months)
Ruby, image processing, real-estate search and analytics, video and twitter integration.
Senior Application Developer
HRsmart
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry
February 2008 – July 2008 (6 months)
Designed and developed core application libraries which provide developers with an innovative saas-friendly environment. Developed for OnDemand group, responsible for saas products including enterprise-integration products and turnkey hosted saas.
Senior Developer
SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry
February 2007 – February 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Spearheaded development of platform/API, depended upon by operations and customers. Built large-scale metering and data collection facilities for operations which included, monitoring, bandwidth, and billing. Invented, developed, and deployed "bandwidth pooling".
Project Engineer
Architel
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
2006 – 2007 (1 year)
Help start new company, "Big in Japan". Developed multi-site distributed monitoring service, ticketing system, and operational dashboard. Responsibilities included developing new operational programs, incubating R&D projects and startups, and resolving unsolved critical support issues.
Senior Developer
Managed Petroleum Group, Inc.
December 2004 – December 2005 (1 year 1 month)
OLAP, IS/IT systems management, VB app, custom CRM integration with oil/gas accounting platform, and custom reporting for reconciliation, evaluating property performance, and generating investor statements.
Tier 1-3 Support Engineer
IP Communications
Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry
July 2000 – March 2001 (9 months)
Provided troubleshooting, customer support, and internal provisioning support. Configured equipment from Alcatel, Cisco, Lucent, ERX (now Juniper), and interfaced with MetaSolv and OpenView.
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