Solutions Engineering Leader

Experienced engineering leader with 20+ years of focused expertise in technical product management and solutions engineering. I have a passion for learning and an interest in shaping technology’s impact on society. I love bringing an innovative perspective to technical problems and helping customers realize the full value of technology.

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Suzanne Aldrich

Suzanne Aldrich

Web Technologist

SJA Consulting

Biography

Suzanne grew up in northern California amid a triumvirate of forests, wine country, and rugged coastline. Her youth consisted of summers spent reading voraciously, visiting museums in Chicago with her family, and lots of time amongst redwood trees appreciating nature and honing her budding engineering skills on miniature dams in forest streams. Suzanne’s curiosity and talent eventually landed her at Stanford University where she studied Computer Science and how people and technology interact. While at Stanford, Suzanne designed the Wearable Computing Lab’s website which was hosted on a matchbox-sized Linux server. At the time, it was the smallest webserver in the world. Lately, she’s been focusing on how global movements function without a figurehead and has even launched a few campaigns herself. If Suzanne learned anything from a youth spent in nature, it’s that everything has a cycle. She’s keeping the wheel turning by taking her own family on long hikes and by helping her oldest daughter learn how to be an engineer. Having spent time with companies like Cloudflare, Vercel, and Chronosphere, Suzanne has built her career in Sales Engineering leadership.

Interests
  • Internet Security
  • Web Application Performance
  • User Centered Design
Education
  • Major, Science, Technology, & Society, 2011

    Stanford University

  • Minor, Computer Science, 2011

    Stanford University

Skills

Technical
Cloud Platforms
DNS
Databases
Docker
Drupal
Edge Compute
Git
HTTP
JavaScript
Linux
React
TCP/IP
TLS
Web Development
Web Security
Web Servers
WordPress
Hobbies
Camping
Cats

Dracula and Pixel

Gardening
Hiking
Meditation
Photography

Digital, Black & White Film, Nature, Landscape, Architecture, Fine Art

Piano

J.S. Bach, Scott Joplin

Skiing
Weights
Yoga

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Cloudflare
Senior Solutions Engineer
July 2024 – Present San Francisco, California
To help build a better Internet.
 
 
 
 
 
Chronosphere
Sales Engineering Manager, West
September 2022 – July 2023 Remote
Cloud native observability.
 
 
 
 
 
Vercel
Director, Sales Engineering
June 2021 – August 2022 Remote
Enabling the world to ship the best products.
 
 
 
 
 
Cloudflare
Field Solutions Engineer Manager
July 2015 – June 2021 San Francisco, California
To help build a better Internet.
 
 
 
 
 
Pantheon
Senior Customer Success Engineer
July 2013 – July 2015 San Francisco, California
Drupal and WordPress hosting, automated DevOps, and scalable infrastructure serving billions of pageviews a month.
 
 
 
 
 
SJA Consulting
Owner
June 1997 – Present
Tech Wisdom, Mindful Solutions.

Accomplish­ments

Planning Committee
I volunteered in various capacities for a reading fair started by a fellow Stanford Alumni for youth in disadvantaged areas of the San Francisco Bay Area. I solicited donations for raffle prizes, set up and ran fun reading activities, and coordinated other volunteers at check-in.
Organizing Grassroots Healthcare Activists
I developed a civic action mapping web presence and organized national synchronous marches to rally thousands of American people to pressure our government into passing a healthcare reform bill with a strong public option.

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