Alexis Goldstein

Alexis Goldstein is the founder and CEO of aut faciam, a technical training, consulting and software development company. She is the co-author of the book "HTML5 & CSS3 in The Real World" by Sitepoint.Alexis is a proud member of NYC Resistor in Brooklyn, NY, where she learns, builds and teaches. She is a 2011 nextNY fellow. She is also a co-organizer and teacher for Girl Develop It, a group that conducts low-cost programming classes in a non-intimidating environment, where women can feel free to ask "dumb" questions.Prior to founding aut faciam, Alexis spent seven years working in technology on Wall Street. She worked in both the cash equity and equity derivatives spaces. Her focus ranged from the development of client-facing, realtime cash trading systems to creating proprietary software for equity option pricing and volatility surface modeling.