Alex is a security-focused software engineering manager at Clever. He cares about usable security, privacy by design, smooth music, and fresh coffee. Before joining Clever, Alex "defended the bird" at Twitter as the tech lead for the Account Security team. He was also a security consultant at Foundstone, where people paid him to break into websites and buildings. He received his BS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and liked Cal so much that he went back to the School of Information for a masters degree.