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Alex Rivera
Senior Software Engineer
alex.rivera@email.com
+1 (415) 555-0192
San Francisco, CA
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Profile

Full-stack engineer with 7+ years building scalable web applications and distributed systems. Led a team that reduced API response times by 62% and cut infrastructure costs by $240K annually. Passionate about clean architecture, developer experience, and shipping products that users love.

Languages
English:Native
Spanish:Fluent
German:Intermediate
Skills
TypeScript / JavaScript
React & Next.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
AWS (ECS, RDS, Lambda)
Docker & Kubernetes
System Design
Team Leadership
Technical Communication
Problem Solving
Agile / Scrum
Mentoring
Interests
Open-Source Contributions
Rock Climbing
Science Fiction
Espresso Craft
Professional Experience
Senior Software Engineer03/2021 — Present
Cloudpath Technologies
  • •Architected and led the migration of a monolithic Node.js backend to microservices on AWS, reducing P99 latency from 840 ms to 310 ms.
  • •Owned the real-time data pipeline handling 2M+ events/day using Kafka and Flink.
  • •Mentored a team of 4 engineers, introduced weekly architecture reviews that halved the bug escape rate.
  • •Drove adoption of TypeScript across 11 services, eliminating an entire class of runtime errors.
Software Engineer06/2018 — 02/2021
Nimbus Analytics
  • •Built a self-serve analytics dashboard used by 300+ enterprise clients, increasing feature adoption by 48%.
  • •Designed a PostgreSQL query-optimisation layer that cut average dashboard load time from 4.2 s to 0.9 s.
  • •Integrated Stripe billing and reduced payment failures by 23% through smart retry logic.
  • •Collaborated with product and design to ship 6 major features under tight quarterly deadlines.
Junior Frontend Developer09/2016 — 05/2018
BrightSpark Studio
  • •Delivered 15+ client websites using React and CSS-in-JS; average Lighthouse performance score 94.
  • •Built a reusable component library that cut new-project setup time by 60%.
  • •Implemented A/B testing framework that informed design decisions leading to a 31% conversion uplift.
Projects
OpenTrace — Distributed Tracing SDK2023 – Present
  • •Open-source TypeScript SDK for distributed tracing compatible with OpenTelemetry. Reached 4,200 weekly npm downloads within 3 months of launch.
  • •Implemented W3C TraceContext propagation and auto-instrumentation for Express, Fastify, and Hapi.
  • •Maintained 98% test coverage; zero breaking changes across 12 minor releases.
DevDash — Developer Productivity Dashboard2022
  • •Internal tool adopted by 80 engineers at Cloudpath to surface PR cycle times, flaky test rates, and deploy frequency.
  • •Built with Next.js, tRPC, and Prisma; integrated with GitHub API and Buildkite webhooks.
  • •Reduced average PR review turnaround from 3.1 days to 1.4 days.
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science05/2016
University of California, Berkeley
GPA: 3.8 / 4.0
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