Alex Rivera
Senior Software Engineer
alex.rivera@email.com
+1 (415) 555-0192
San Francisco, CA
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
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
08/2012 – 05/2016
GPA: 3.8 / 4.0
Languages
English
Spanish
German
Interests
Open-Source Contributions
Rock Climbing
Science Fiction
Espresso Craft
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.
Certificates
–AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional(2023)
–Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)(2022)
Resume Template
Slate
Emerald accent · Dot skills · Timeline · Photo
A bold dark-header template with an emerald green accent that makes your name and title impossible to miss.
Dot-rated skills, language proficiency bars, and a clean timeline experience section give recruiters everything they need at a glance. Ideal for designers, engineers, and product professionals.
Use this template →Free · No signup · Instant PDF
What's included
Emerald accentDot skillsTimelinePhotoPDF exportATS-friendlyFully customizable
More templates