Alexa Griffith speaking at a conference

About Me

Welcome! I'm Alexa Griffith, a Senior Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI infrastructure and cloud-native platforms. I focus on building distributed systems for machine learning and gen AI inference at scale, working primarily on platform architecture and infrastructure reliability. Outside of work, I write technical posts and host a podcast called Alexa's Input (AI) (Spotify) where I interview leaders and innovators transforming the tech industry.

I'm currently at Red Hat as a Senior Principal Software Engineer and Forward Deployed Engineer, working directly with engineering teams to design, optimize, and operate production AI systems in real-world environments. I build and deploy large-scale LLM inference systems, focusing on distributed serving, optimization, and inference infrastructure using open source tools like vLLM, llm-d, KServe, and Envoy AI Gateway.

At Bloomberg, I was on the AI Inference Platform team, focused on building platforms that help teams deploy and serve machine learning and gen AI models at scale. My main work involved KServe, a CNCF project for serving predictive and GenAI models on Kubernetes, and Envoy AI Gateway, which manages traffic routing for AI services.

At Bluecore in NYC, I started out helping data scientists operationalize their models. I maintained Airflow, built DAG workflows, and worked on their recommendations service. Later, I joined a new Analytics Infrastructure team where I built a high-throughput, low-latency Go API on Kubernetes, implemented authentication for microservices, and designed and built features for the streaming platform.

I graduated magna cum laude in Honors Chemistry (American Chemical Society certified) and a minor in Spanish from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in May 2019. I was a Melaven-Rhenium Scholar and 2017 Research in Arts Scholar. During undergrad, I worked on computational chemistry research with Dr. Konstantinos Vogiatzis, focusing on quantum chemistry methods and computational modeling. I conducted interdisciplinary research on the chemistry of blue pigments inspired by studying art history in Paris. I also interned at Oak Ridge National Lab through the DOE SULI program with Dr. Dmytro Bykov, where my research on enzyme catalysis resulted in a published paper in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and won a SETCA 2019 Poster Award, and at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern in Germany through the DAAD RISE program with the van Wüllen research group.

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Podcasts

Alexa's Input (AI)

Conversations with engineers and open-source leaders.

Latest episode: Building the Network for AI Agents with Yan Avlasov.

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Attention Deficit

Weekly AI news with Alexa Griffith and Taylor Dolezal.

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2026

  • Fork Yeah: Choosing Your Own Adventure in Open Source - Alexa Griffith [Women+ in Open Source Forum, New York]
  • Embracing the Cringe: 7 Lessons from 70 Interviews - Alexa Griffith [Red Hat EMEA Remote Site Committee Lightning Talks]
  • Dashboards & Dragons: Reliability Magic for AI Platforms - Alexa Griffith & Sal Furino [Google SRE Meetup]
  • Tools Powering the Age of GenAI - Erica Hughberg (Tetrate) & Alexa Griffith (Red Hat) [Datum Alt Cloud Meetup]

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Contact

  • alexa.nicole.griffith@gmail.com