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Alex Graham

Engineer & Founder

Building and scaling large-scale, reliable cloud systems. Helped scale Slack from 100K to 8M+ daily active users.

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About Me

Engineer & Founder with deep infrastructure expertise

I've been building things on the internet since high school, when I started mywoot.net and ran it through college to help pay tuition. That early experience managing Linux servers and configuring load balancers sparked a career in infrastructure that's now spanned over a decade.

I helped build and maintain systems that enabled Slack to scale from 100,000 daily active users to more than 8 million. I bring a track record of advancing platform reliability, streamlining cloud architecture, and partnering with engineering organizations to accelerate developer velocity.

After spending five years flipping houses with my family, I saw firsthand how frustrating it is for homeowners to navigate renovations. That's why I started Dib.io, a platform that helps homeowners make smarter decisions about their properties. As Founder and CEO, I handle everything from technical architecture to fundraising and customer acquisition.

10+ Years in Infrastructure

8M+ Users Supported at Slack

$1.5M+ Annual Savings Delivered

Experience

Where I've worked and what I've built

Founder & CEO

Dib.io

January 2025 - Present Truckee, CA

Spearheading the end-to-end development of a data-driven platform, overseeing product vision, technical architecture, and fundraising efforts.

Defining cloud infrastructure strategy, selecting core technologies, deployment patterns, and observability tooling
Establishing development workflows, CI/CD pipelines that streamline rapid iteration while enforcing quality and security standards
Driving fundraising efforts for Seed round, developing investor materials and meeting with angel investors and VCs
Leading customer acquisition by pitching to prospective clients and onboarding early adopters

Real Estate Investor

Graham Adventures LLC

2019 - 2024 California

Took a career break to flip 5 residential properties over 5 years — one house per year. Worked hands-on alongside my wife and dad while managing all aspects of the renovation process.

Managed full renovation lifecycle: acquisition, budgeting, permitting, construction, and sale
Performed hands-on work including demolition, framing, electrical, plumbing, and finishing
Coordinated with contractors, inspectors, and real estate agents to meet timelines and budgets
Developed project management skills applicable to any complex, multi-stakeholder initiative

Operations Engineer

AppOmni

September 2021 - February 2022 Remote

Architected infrastructure solutions and implemented comprehensive monitoring frameworks for cloud platform operations.

Architected Terraform-based solutions to replicate and extend GCP infrastructure across multiple global regions
Implemented comprehensive monitoring frameworks for development and production environments
Engineered detailed dashboards consolidating critical application metrics for real-time performance tracking
Enhanced infrastructure reliability by contributing to deployment pipelines across multi-region GCP environments

Staff Security Engineer

Slack

July 2017 - November 2019 Remote

Oversaw real-time security monitoring of large-scale production systems within AWS, ensuring reliability and resilience of global infrastructure.

Developed fully automated Splunk cluster leveraging AWS Autoscaling Groups, Terraform, and Ansible
Led incident response efforts for critical production security events as part of 24/7 on-call rotation
Analyzed storage utilization and implemented S3 lifecycle policies, resulting in $1.5M+ annual cost savings
Administered large-scale Elasticsearch logging cluster for centralized security-critical data analysis
Earned promotion to Staff Engineer in recognition of technical leadership and cross-team impact

Senior Operations Engineer

Slack

November 2014 - July 2017 San Francisco, CA

Co-founded the App-Ops team and helped scale Slack from 100,000 daily active users to more than 8 million.

Co-founded App-Ops team and expanded it from 2 engineers to a high-performing organization of 10+
Partnered with Chief Architect to guide Slack's migration from PHP to HHVM
Enhanced web server performance by over 100% through CDN deployment and HHVM rollout
Executed full migration from EC2 Classic to VPC with zero downtime in under a week
Maintained critical global edge infrastructure including CDN, DDoS mitigation, and network monitoring