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Alex Rivera

Senior Software Engineer

Contact

alex.rivera@email.com
+1 (415) 555-0192
San Francisco, CA

Languages

English
Spanish
German

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

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.

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Cloudpath Technologies | 03/2021 - Present
  • 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 Engineer
Nimbus Analytics | 06/2018 - 02/2021
  • 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 Developer
BrightSpark Studio | 09/2016 - 05/2018
  • 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 โ€” Distributed Tracing SDK
2023 โ€“ 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 โ€” Developer Productivity Dashboard
2022
  • 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 Science
University of California, Berkeley | 08/2012 โ€“ 05/2016
GPA: 3.8 / 4.0

Dean's List โ€” 6 semesters. Capstone: distributed key-value store with Raft consensus.

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