Alexis Goldstein is an activist, programmer, teacher, artist, and occupier.
Alexis is the founder of aut faciam, a technical training company. She co-authored the book HTML5 & CSS3 for The Real World by Sitepoint, and is working on a new book, Learning CSS3 Animations, due out in Summer 2012She is also a teacher for Girl Develop It, a group that conducts low-cost programming classes where women can learn in a non-intimidating environment.
Before Alexis Occupied Wall Street, Wall Street occupied Alexis. She 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.