About us
The Alaska Developer’s Alliance for Software Professionals who are invested in Alaska’s future.
Mission
To build an inclusive ecosystem of software developers who use this network to learn and create opportunities for Alaska’s Future.
Vision
As Alaska’s economy diversifies into product and value-add businesses, the Alaska Developer’s Alliance will serve as the hub for software professionals to network with the next generation of businesses and build companies that will sustain Alaska’s economy into the future.
Who
Software professionals who want to be in Alaska.
How
A diverse board focused on execution. A steering committee focused on vision. Stakeholder and business participation.
Partners
The Alaska Developers Alliance is made possible with the help of our strategic partnerships and sponsors. We are always looking for new ways to work with organizations. If you like what we are doing get in touch!
Organization
About
The Alaska Developer’s Alliance for Software Professionals who are invested in Alaska’s future.
Mission
To build an inclusive ecosystem of software developers who use this network to learn and create opportunities for Alaska’s Future.
Vision
As Alaska’s economy diversifies into product and value-add businesses, the Alaska Developer’s Alliance will serve as the hub for software professionals to network with the next generation of businesses and build companies that will sustain Alaska’s economy into the future.
Who
Software professionals who want to be in Alaska.
How
A diverse board focused on execution. A steering committee focused on vision. Stakeholder and business participation.
Partners
The Alaska Developers Alliance is made possible with the help of our strategic partnerships and sponsors. We are always looking for new ways to work with organizations. If you like what we are doing get in touch!
Our Partners
Board
Jeff Levin, Managing Director
Jeff is a software engineer born and raised in Anchorage. He started programming in high school and attended UAA as a UA scholar, eventually graduating with a BBS in MIS. He ran networks for non-profits and national Alaska Native Corporations before starting his own consulting firm, Levinology Labs building databases and web applications. After looking to participate in a community after college, he only found a small group of developers in Fairbanks. The put their heads together and formed the Alaska Developers Alliance. In 2019 he formed the eDiscovery company, Legalverse.
Dave Bechberger, Community Outreach
Dave literally wrote the book on graph databases. With over 20 years of experience in distributed software architecture and development. He is a recognized thought leader in applying graph databases to build complex distributed data architectures. Dave has consulted or led projects in a wide range of industries including finance, bioinformatics, oil & gas, and supply chain management. He is known for his pragmatic approach to developing complex data architectures for companies ranging from single person development teams, to silicon valley startups, to the worlds leading cloud provider. He is currently a Sr. Graph Architect on the Amazon Neptune team where he assists customers in building some of the largest distributed graph backed applications in the world. Dave is the author of Graph Databases in Action by Manning publications and has spoken at national and international conferences about practical approaches to applying graph databases to solve complex business problems.
Adam Link, Treasurer,
CISSP, CEH, CHFI
Adam is a cybersecurity and infrastructure engineer with a history of building technology companies. He has experience in the finance, blockchain, and mobile industries. He holds 7 AWS certifications, including both Professional certifications and the Security Specialty. He has spoken at conferences around the world on engineering best practices for accelerating company goals. He has his BSB in Finance, his Masters in Cybersecurity, and is working on his Doctorate in Computer Science.
Arsh Chauhan
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Steering Committee
Melanie Bladow
Melanie Bladow is a management consultant specializing in technology and business transformation strategy. She is passionate about driving change, believes that strategy and people skills will differentiate the technology leaders of the future, and she’s ready to show you how!
Her 20 year global career has spanned both IT and Business Leadership, leading teams in the UK, Algeria, Moscow, Mumbai, Tripoli and the US. Melanie has led initiatives for Software Development, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Oilfield Digitization, as well as setting technology and cyber security strategy as CIO for BP’s Global Exploration Division. A highlight of her career was leading the crisis management team keeping communications with Libya online during the Arab Spring.
Melanie holds a BA in Politics from Whitman College and a CIO of the Future graduate certificate from Boston University and UC Berkeley. Melanie is now Principal at Tern Consulting and resides in Anchorage, Alaska, where she leverages her global leadership experience to help organizations achieve strategic digital transformation.
Bradley Pizzimenti
Bradley got his start with computer hardware working for Sequent Systems during the time that it was acquired by IBM in 1999. He spent two years developing and teaching computer science in French in Burkina Faso during his Peace Corps service.
During his second year of graduate school in Paris, he won an entrepreneurship competition with friends at Sciences Po and was given the chance to help grow a young startup from idea-stage in Berlin in the summer of 2013.
He returned to his hometown of Portland, Oregon to start Gennaker Systems, a software consultancy, before relocating to Anchorage, Alaska in 2018. He is a commercial drone pilot and has conducted FAA part 107 commercial drone pilot training around Alaska.
Vincent Castro
Vincent is a software engineer based in Fairbanks, Alaska working full time as an entreprenaure and at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. Starting in the web and software development field in 2005 focusing on building custom content management systems and download management software, now focusing on blockchain, machine learning and mobile development. He has been with the AK Dev Alliance from the beginning. He hopes the organization fosters more tech interest by Alaskans to jump into theses new fields. His dream is for Alaska to be the the silicon valley of the north. In his spare time he enjoys gaming and playing music
Isaac Vanderberg
Isaac is Managing Director at Launch Alaska and is the fund manager for Launch Alaska Fund II — a $3m fund that invests directly in the accelerators’ cohort companies. Isaac has worked with hundreds of early stage companies and entrepreneurs responding to Alaska’s food, water, transportation and energy challenges. Isaac’s previous roles include State Director at the Alaska Small Business Development Center and Operations Director for Chispa Group (now Afina Holdings) an import-export firm in Philadelphia that specializes in trade between the Delaware Valley and Chile.