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Alexander Thompson

Chief Data Officer & Solutions Architect

Full-stack developer and cloud architect with 10+ years building web applications, APIs and data systems. I spent eight years as lead developer on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projects, and now design Azure and AI solutions for higher education.

Mobile, Alabama 30.69°N 88.04°W English · Spanish Open to new roles
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Currently

Feb 2025 – present

Chief Data Officer, Solutions Architect

Dystopia
  • Building an LLM-powered chatbot with Azure AI Foundry to answer inquiries at Tuskegee University.
  • Working with Ellucian to pull student data through API connections for scholarship matching and an enrollment dashboard.
  • Designing and implementing server-side applications and APIs.
  • Deploying, managing and optimizing solutions on Microsoft Azure.
  • Automating CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and reliability.
  • Running project lifecycles, requirements gathering and stakeholder coordination.

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonGoC#C / C++JavaSQL

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsNode.js.NET / ASP.NET MVCAngularJSEntity Framework

Cloud & data

AzureAzure ADAzure AI FoundryDatabricksElasticsearchOracleREST APIsCI/CD

Machine learning

TensorFlowKerasscikit-learnpandasNumPy

Experience

most recent first
  1. 2016 – 20258 yrs 5 mos

    Software Developer III

    UICGS / Bowhead Family of Companies · Mobile, AL

    Full-time developer on Bowhead's contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), leading several of its field-operations systems.

    ODESS · Lead developerOperations and Dredging Endangered Species System. Live tracking of endangered-species incidents during dredging to reduce environmental impact. Also chief graphics designer, moving the site to responsive Material Design.
    Shoreline Management (SLM) · Lead developerBuilt with React, Azure, Node.js, C# .NET and SQL.
    JALBTCX · Lead developerJoint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise.
    DQM Viewer · DeveloperLive tracking of dredging activity for USACE's Dredging Quality Management program.
    Sand grain-size ML · DatabricksMachine learning environment to estimate sand grain sizes using TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, pandas and NumPy.

    Also built an Azure AD authentication system for React apps, deployed Elasticsearch to the cloud, wrote a new API from scratch in Node, TypeScript and Oracle, maintained a C# API, and worked with GIS teams on accurate spatial coordinates.

  2. 2014 – 20183 yrs 5 mos

    Owner & Lead Programmer

    Game Age Creation, LLC · Tuscaloosa, AL

    Founded a game studio building a console game in Unreal Engine 4 for PlayStation 4 and Steam, with character design in Blender and art in Adobe tools.

    C++ · Unreal Engine 4 · Blender
  3. 2014 – 20162 yrs 4 mos

    Student C# Developer

    Center for Advanced Public Safety · University of Alabama

    Developed RESTful web applications for government agencies.

    C# · ASP.NET MVC · Web API · Entity Framework
  4. 2013 – 20217 yrs 10 mos

    Website Designer

    Tuscaloosa County Medical Society

    Designed and maintained the society's website at tcmsdocs.org.

    HTML · CSS · JavaScript · jQuery

On GitHub

pinned repositories
Red-Black-Tree-in-C Red-black tree (self-balancing binary search tree) implementation. C Data-Structures-Library-LL Data structures library built on linked lists. C Data-Structures-Library-A Data structures library built on arrays. C Heapsort-Algorithm Heapsort algorithm implementation. C Kruskal-Algorithm Minimum spanning tree using Kruskal's algorithm. Java Python-Files A collection of Python projects. Python

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Education & certifications

Education

  • The University of AlabamaB.A., Criminology

Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
  • Go basic
  • SQL basic
  • Java intermediate

Languages

  • EnglishNative
  • Spanish

Hiring for a full-stack, cloud or data role?

I'm open to new opportunities. Email me, or reach out on LinkedIn.