Alex Zenla

Background

About Alex Zenla

I am a 26 year old technologist that has 10+ years in the full-time corporate world and is rebuilding the foundations of infrastructure to be secure-by-design. I grew an interest in computers at the age of 7, learning about hypervisors and hardware technologies. At the age of 11, I was inspired by the concept of Chrome OS to get involved in low level systems, where I contributed to the Chromium and Chromium OS projects, which led to my father and I being invited to Google I/O 2012 by the Chrome OS team. Eventually, the Dart programming language came along, and I got deeply involved in the ecosystem, contributing to the language and standard library, and building core open source technologies. At the age of 14, I was hired by an IoT company called DGLogik to build an IoT platform that could scale across complex networks, launching my career in IoT. At DGLogik, I became deeply involved in Google's IoT technologies across multiple divisions, ultimately ending up working at Google on their IoT platform for their internal Real Estate. In 2024, I retired from the IoT data sphere and started Edera, a company that is making computing secure-by-design.