Workshop
A calm home base for my workday as a manager: what to focus on next, and a clearer picture of what my team has on its plate. It runs entirely on my own computer, because work data should not have to live on someone else's server.
Hi, I am Alexis.
I am an engineering manager who cares about the people on both ends of the software: the team building it and the people it affects. I have spent my career in health care technology, where a bug is not just a bug. It can be someone's coverage or a letter they never understood. That has shaped how I think about building things, and it matters even more now that AI is part of so much of the work.
How I work
I try to be the kind of manager I would want to have: honest, steady, and in the work with my team rather than above it. Most of my job is clearing the way so good people can do their best work and still have a life outside of it.
I am hopeful about AI and use it every day. I also think it is on us to keep it safe and humane: protect people's private information, keep a person in the loop on decisions that affect someone's life, and be honest about what these tools get wrong.
Things I've built
eng-agents
AI helpers that take on coding tasks in small, reviewable steps. They cannot push, merge, or deploy anything without a person saying yes. I built it to see what helpful but supervised AI looks like in practice.
TaskLedger private for now
A little phone app for noting small wins before I forget them. It scrubs out links, emails, and ticket numbers before anything is sent to an AI model.
Everyday tools
Small things I have built to make everyday tasks easier for the people around me, like thrift reselling helpers and classroom helpers for report comments and open house letters.
How I got here
Before tech
Taught math, which taught me more about patience and explaining things than anything since.
2019
Joined a health care technology company as a junior developer while finishing a math and computer science degree.
2020 to 2024
Built tools that helped non-engineers write clearer letters to the people they serve.
2024
Moved into management, leading a platform team overseeing a wide breadth of products, microservices, and internal systems.
2025
Finished a master's in applied computer science, mostly on nights and weekends.
Outside work
I share a home with my husband and our three cats, who supervise most of my work from the nearest keyboard. When I am not working, I am usually playing video games, listening to music, or reading up on whatever is happening in the world.
I am a problem solver at heart, at work and everywhere else. I also care a lot about fairness and about women having a real seat at the table, in tech and beyond.