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Alexander
Rana

Software engineer building reliable real-time applications in Greater Boston.

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Java at the core.
A full-stack perspective.

Experience

July 2020 — Present

Software Engineer

Raytheon Intelligence & Space

Marlborough, Massachusetts

Developing and maintaining mission-critical, real-time applications for air traffic systems, with a focus on dependable services and useful operational interfaces.

Air traffic controllers monitoring radar displays at the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center
Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center
FAA air traffic control tower at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport
FAA control tower, Minneapolis–Saint Paul
  • Build Java and Spring Boot microservices and integrate REST APIs across distributed services.
  • Work with high-volume telemetry data to improve responsiveness, throughput, and operational reliability.
  • Develop Angular and TypeScript interfaces for geospatial visualization and engineering workflows.
  • Support containerized delivery, automated testing, code reviews, and performance troubleshooting.

Expertise

Connected services. Clear interfaces. A view into production.

Backend & architecture

Services designed to work together, with reliability built in.

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST APIs, Distributed systems

Interfaces & data

Clear interfaces for complex information and the data behind them.

Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, SQL

Delivery & observability

From repeatable releases to understanding what happens in production.

Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, CI/CD, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch

Education

An engineering foundation.
An ongoing focus on AI.

Gilman Hall at Johns Hopkins University
Homewood Lodge on the Johns Hopkins campusThe light-filled atrium inside Gilman Hall
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University

M.S. in Artificial Intelligence

In progress · Expected 2028

University of Louisville

B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Computer Science minor · Dean’s List, four times

Let’s talk

About dependable software, distributed systems,
or what you’re working on next.

Campus photographs: Carol M. Highsmith (public domain) and Baltimore Heritage (CC0), via Wikimedia Commons. Air traffic photographs: Washington ARTCC (U.S. federal government, public domain); MSP control tower by Tony Webster (CC BY-SA 2.0).