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Alana Hanson

@alanahanson

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Senior software engineer building scalable web platforms with strong DevOps expertise.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building reliable, scalable web platforms with strong DevOps practices, opportunities to mentor engineers, lead migrations, and deliver measurable business impact.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years building scalable, maintainable web applications and backend systems using Ruby on Rails, Python, and JavaScript. I focus on performance, reliability, and developer productivity through thoughtful design and automation.

At Framebridge I modernized legacy Rails views with Vue.js, rebuilt internal self-service tools, optimized slow batch processing from hours to minutes, and introduced Dockerized CI/CD pipelines to reduce deployment downtime. I have strong SRE experience from migrating fintech systems to cloud infrastructure, writing Terraform modules, automating secret management with Vault, and improving observability with Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, and CloudWatch.

I mentor engineers, lead system migrations to modular architectures, collaborate cross-functionally to ship features that improve business outcomes, and prioritize shipping reliable, measurable improvements that help operations and product teams move faster.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

Current

Framebridge

Apr 2022 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Maintained and expanded a large Ruby on Rails e-commerce platform, modernized UI with Vue.js reducing page load times by 30%, and rebuilt internal scheduling and promotional systems to cut processing from 4+ hours to ~10 minutes while improving monitoring and deployment pipelines.

Ruby on Rails Vue.Js PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL AWS Docker GitHub Actions CI CD

Site Reliability Engineer

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Aug 2019 - Jul 2020 (11 months)

Supported migration of fintech applications to cloud infrastructure by authoring Terraform modules, automating secret management with Vault and Python, and improving CI/CD and monitoring to increase deployment reliability.

Terraform AWS Docker Python Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Monitoring

Software Engineer

divvyDOSE

Oct 2018 - Jul 2019 (9 months)

Built backend services for prescription fulfillment and insurance refill automation using Rails and Python, integrating third-party APIs to reduce manual review by 40% and improving performance and test coverage for higher reliability.

Ruby on Rails Python PostgreSQL Redis Sidekiq Docker RSpec Cypress AWS

Software Engineer

Leapfrog Online

Jul 2018 - Oct 2018 (3 months)

Developed real-time lead monitoring tools with Rails and React, integrated advertising platforms for automated attribution reporting, and improved backend performance and error monitoring to reduce latency by ~30%.