Alex Alejandre Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

- Responsible for day to day administration, monitoring and capacity planning while primary on product integration and delivery- Led the engineering team in the successful design and development of a cloud-based application that increased user productivity by 15%- Established a DevOps culture and implemented automated testing, deployment, and monitoring, resulting in a 11% decrease in downtime- Coordinated in-house toolsets and production environment for low latency infrastructure- Implemented a performance management system to ensure that engineering projects were completed on time on budget- Developed and maintained a partner directory to facilitate communication and collaboration- Structured the engineering team to better meet customer needs, resulting in a 25% increase in customer retention- Exercising front-to-back operations control and leading integrations and deliveries for products that provision bespoke solutions to open up underserved markets.- Mentored product managers and team leaders and developed relevant trainings and metrics to drive performance- Developed algorithmic trading frameworks with exchange connectivity, colocation design- Architected automated cross-border risk management framework, credit risk policy etc. integrating dozens of strategies, to manage portfolio risk across rate and spread duration, convexity and volatility- Brokered and managed counterparty relationships and strategic partnerships- Generated alpha by with models of long-short contract ratio dynamics of commodity future curves- Explored distinctive risk models integrating value investing frameworks into automated quantitative finance (not modeling risk as volatility!)

I coordinate projects leveraging dozens of experienced contract engineers around the world to deliver results on time and on budget.

General partner & lead implementation navigator for globalized engagement release plans, focusing on roll out design, cornerstone technical deliverables and engagement proposals- Negotiated contracts and collected higher level requirements as client facing engineering lead- Designed and built hard and soft real time applications in finance and energy- Staffed and oversaw engineering department, managing large scale Go, Rust, Kotlin applications- Developed trainings and DevOps best practices to proactively monitoring system performance, identify optimizations, ensuring supported systems are highly reliable, secure and performing at acceptable levels- Implemented national-scale autoscalling solutions for regulatory data custodianingRelevant technologies:- Go, Rust, LISP, Haskell, Elixir, Fortran, C- Linux, BSD, AIX, HP-UX- REST APIs and GRPC- Kubernetes, Kafka, Cloud Pub/Sub- Ansible, Terraform- Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services- SQL, Redis

Scaled company past 70 employees on a 100% remote model, creating bespoke solutions in finance, energy, logistics, factory automation, feature and functionality expansion of internal business software and more. Some relevant projects:Ran Proprietary Sentiment Analysis Engine- Detected online securities manipulation to exploit alpha from early stage "pump and dumps"- Scraped 6,000,000 daily comments on social media- Monitored prediction accuracy of user profiles in relation to market movement- Created graph of user narrative relationshipsRefactored Production Monolith to Microservice Architecture- More manageable scaling saved client 85% in dev and hosting costs- Audited result with formal methods (TLA+)- 700,000 LOC to 450,000 LOC- Full documentation and test coverageNatural. Gas Pipeline Pressure Management- MISRA C compliance- Modeled and stress tested control system- Employed dynamic programming to optimize non-linearearities in transient terminal distribution and stead state gas transmission- Certified ASIL functional safety (ISO 26262), IEC 61508 compliant- Integrated SCADA and DCS data feedsTransitioned Production Services to Hybdrid Cloud- Saved client 60% in hosting costs- Eliminated vendor lock in with multicloud abstraction layer- No change in developer workflow with seamless CI/CD infrastructureLaunched Crowd Brewing Campaign- Ideated then implemented new business plan- Launched Ecommerce site and app- Composed and translated copy to 15 languages- Created a crowdsourcing system for users to vote on blends, labeling, art etc. of (concurrent) batches of beerRefactored Rails MVP to Overcome Scaling Bottlenecks- Replaced ORM with database calls and cache- Compute heavy tasks moved to efficient microservices- Optimized session containers, removed helper methods and migrated tasks from req. to init- Kept main structure of Rails App to reduce implementation costs

- learned and made trainings to upskill teams on new technology- originated over $8,00,000 business with new international clients- negotiated SLAs and maintenance contracts with clients- scaled global level data collection, custodianing and analysis system- designed and deployed CI/CD pipeline

- collected and distilled requirements as client facing project head- maintained server automation toolkit- assessed open source projects to use- designed and employed interview questions and criteria