Alvan Price

Experience

A career built across the whole technical stack.

Software, infrastructure, remote operations, specialized hardware, customer support, and leadership. Each role added another layer to how I understand and improve systems.

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May 2025 — Present

IT Operations Manager

SDF Tech · Georgia

  • Built operational visibility across 21 sites and approximately 1,260 devices using monitoring, inventory, workflow, alerting, reporting, cloud, and company-owned infrastructure.
  • Introduced redundancy, continuity, recovery, repair tracking, out-of-band-management thinking, and centralized system imaging.
  • Reduced comparable workshop repair turnaround from weeks to approximately 24 hours while using hot-swapping to protect customer uptime.
  • Serve as Tier 3 escalation for remote software issues and specialized hardware returned to the workshop.
Mar 2023 — Mar 2025

Software Engineer, R&D

Wireless Guardian · Covington, Georgia

  • Led technical integrations and collaborative work with major cloud, database, hardware, and data-platform partners.
  • Designed modular remote data-collection systems and custom RF and ALPR devices with cellular backhaul and automated recovery.
  • Managed Python services, data transformations, Kubernetes, distributed databases, monitoring, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Contributed AWS cost controls that helped extend operating runway by nine months.
Mar 2022 — Jan 2023

Full Stack Developer, LAMP

Rocker Power · Remote contract

  • Developed and maintained a proprietary web application across PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, HTML, and jQuery.
  • Optimized database queries to sub-second execution and built dynamic data-cleaning workflows.
  • Delivered front- and back-end CRUD features, secure validation, and iterative sprint work.
Aug 2021 — Feb 2022

Lead Bench Technician

Century Solutions Group · Tyrone, Georgia

  • Led Lenovo and Dell repair work, server assembly, upgrades, VMware ESXi configuration, and client-site deployments.
  • Built PowerShell automation that standardized and accelerated computer onboarding and technician training.
Nov 2020 — Jul 2021

Consultation Agent

Geek Squad · Atlanta, Georgia

  • Diagnosed Windows and macOS hardware and software issues and translated technical recommendations for end users.
Aug 2017 — Aug 2019

Developer and Lead Tutor

Rise Up · Georgia Tech College of Computing

  • Taught Python and Computer Science Principles while developing interactive Runestone Academy material and supporting in-person technical learning events.
Aug 2016 — May 2017

Cofounder and Software Engineer

Nexrave · Atlanta, Georgia

  • Built an iOS interface in Swift, implemented Firebase data services, integrated Facebook login, and used Python for web data collection and cleaning.

Capabilities

Tools matter. Range matters more.

I use the technology that fits the operation instead of forcing every problem into the same stack.

Operations

Jira, InvenTree, PagerDuty, Uptime Kuma, incident response, asset tracking, reliability reporting

Engineering

Python, JavaScript, PHP, PowerShell, Java, APIs, automation, data processing

Infrastructure

Linux, Windows, macOS, AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, Docker, Kubernetes, VMware

Data and hardware

MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ArangoDB, RF, SDR, ALPR, PCBs, backplanes, remote devices

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Computer Science coursework · Atlanta, Georgia · 2016–2020

Completed 82 credit hours, including computer science, object-oriented programming, data structures and algorithms, computer systems and organization, and databases.