Alex Slaughter

Arizona · linkedin.com/in/alexslaughter

Platform leader with over a decade architecting API-first, multi-tenant SaaS at scale — unified identity and gateways, tenancy and isolation, compliance-by-design (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR / NIST 800), observability, and FinOps, multiplying teams through process and mentoring.

As architectural owner of Canvas at Instructure, he scaled the platform to 40M monthly active users, 20k B2B customers, and 70k requests/second at sub-second latency and 99.9% availability — work backing the 93% renewal of $680M ARR — while driving $6M+/yr in COGS savings. Before that he led a zero-downtime migration of 18k physical servers to Oracle Cloud over two years, and was founding CTO of Notebowl. He holds an MS in Computer Software Engineering (ASU) and a BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering (University of Arizona), and is currently a Distinguished Architect at BambooHR.