Home
Our People
Alex Basson

Alex Basson

Senior Director
Alex Basson
HOME BASE
New York City
BEFORE ACCORDION

  • Stride

  • Primer

  • Infinite Ranges

  • Broadcom

  • Vmware

  • Pivotal

ALMA MATER

  • M.A. Washington University in St. Louis

  • B.A University of Chicago

HOME BASE
New York City
BEFORE ACCORDION

  • Stride

  • Primer

  • Infinite Ranges

  • Broadcom

  • Vmware

  • Pivotal

ALMA MATER

  • M.A. Washington University in St. Louis

  • B.A University of Chicago

Alex Basson is a Senior Director with over 13 years of experience in agile consulting and Extreme Programming (XP) practices.

As a consultant on agile software development practices, Alex spent over a decade helping client teams learn how to drive business outcomes through building high-value, high-quality software. As a skilled and experienced teacher, Alex helped client engineers practice Test-Driven Development and Pair Programming disciplines to ensure rapid delivery with low defects, while avoiding silos by maintaining strong cross-team knowledge sharing and collective ownership.

Something you should know
  • Accomplished multi-instrumentalist musician, with particular focuses on classical piano, jazz guitar, and old-time clawhammer banjo.
Noteworthy
  • Prior to joining the tech industry, Alex had a 15-year career as a high school math teacher, most recently as the Head of the Mathematics Department at the prestigious Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, NY.