Alexander Paul Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Guided a senior engineer into a Team Lead role and helped him with cross-functional efforts across 5 different engineering teams, operations, and accounting to plan and design a complete redesign of our service architecture as part of a company-wide initiative to migrate from Elixir to Kotlin.- Maintained a positive working relationship with our accounting and operations departments, representing the engineering group at offsites, changing the planning process to include their input earlier, and regularly handling code changes and data requests. We helped accounting recover $2.8 million in missing suspense transactions and achieved 100% accurate suspense reporting with our banking partner Column.- Onboarded two new senior engineers to the team after helping a team member switch to a product-focused team, prioritizing her professional goals. Provided an internal transfer with group-level opportunities around reliability and architectural improvements to prepare them for a staff-level role.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Oversaw a team of 6 engineers across multiple timezones, responsible for handling infrastructure for Brex Cash, a brokerage service for startups that managed $4+ billion in customer assets and 10s of millions of dollars in daily transaction volume.- Guided my team through Brex’s handling of the SVB shutdown in March; we were able to handle a 50% increase in assets under management in one week that has since continued to grow with an increase in FDIC protection to $6 million.- Mitigated negative sentiment and velocity on the team after layoffs in November 2022, pulling in a new temporary team lead and using it to give the team more responsibility in areas they wanted to grow.- Coordinated the team’s quarterly roadmap with company priorities and other teams’ capacity, often sharing resources with other groups to optimize delivery throughput.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Onboarded onto the team's codebase and began contributing to on-call rotation within 6 weeks, becoming a subject matter expert in our daily FDIC investment pipeline and reducing its outgoing processing time from 20 minutes to 5.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Lead two integrations with Stripe, first as an option for user account funding, reaching >$3.5M in monthly transfers within 3 months, then with their card issuing platform as part of a partner migration from Lending Club Bank and Galileo to Stripe and Column.- Coordinated externally with partners at Braze, Branch, and Grafted Growth to implement deep linking and user tracking in our React Native app.- Full-stack development across multiple app redesigns and built out settlement pdf generation, transaction merchant enrichment, and improvements to subscription fee management.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Updated our flow for items in our warehouses to implement location-based inventory so that we have a detailed view of our stock and can direct our employees to pick items efficiently.- Lead team-wide initiative to migrate our Node.js codebase to Typescript, overhauling the team’s understanding of our database models and how we interact with them using Sequelize and improving the speed and confidence of our API development.- Restructured our disparate delivery API integrations to use a shared pattern to improve scalability, implemented integrations with both Deliv and DoorDash.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Assisted in completion of backend integrations with Docusign and Wolters-Kluwer to alloweSignatures for disclosures packages sent as part of TILA‑RESPA requirements, saving up to aweek of time in the mortgage application process.- Built out forms in React to allow lenders to easily pull credit and enter potential borrowers into alenders system in Blend.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Managed and developed a test-drive scheduling software platform to allow employees to schedule appointments and manage resources in Salesforce with custom Apex code. Also allowed customers to schedule appointments directly through our website/golang server.- Helped develop first-of-its-kind car financing platform in golang that allows customers to apply, receive approval, and sign up for car loans through our website in as less than an hour, adding $400 in per-car revenue in its first 2 months.- Built internal tools, using React.js, for our operations team to monitor customer financing and update vehicle information on our site- Worked on development of two Swift iOS applications; a consumer-facing version of our website and an internal tool used by our operations team to manage appointments with our cars and customers.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- Developed premium features for LinkedIn’s Job Search app for both Android and iOS, allowing paid members access to data visualizations about companies and positions they are interested in.- Augmented the Hadoop and Java jobs used to run the “How You Rank” page, which calculates user presence and visibility on LinkedIn in comparison to others in their network and industry.- Implemented a Node API to leverage “How You Rank” in LinkedIn’s mobile application, which led to 5x more views than its desktop counterpart and increased revenue several million dollars.- Migrated the Premium Team’s Java services from RPC to an in-house REST based API, and updated the services to operate safely in a multi-colo environment.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Test Framework Development for Team Money

Champaign, Il, Us

Searching for SNP variants in honeybee genomes that link to behavioral variations using next generation sequencing technology under Professor Sandra Rodriguez-Zas

Reston, Va, Us

Maintain and improve web pages for the Illinois Water Science Center and write scripts to help process their data

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

Worked with a team to analyze how Google Chromium caches and retrieves web page resources and modified the browser to keep track of and prefetch these resources.

Reston, Va, Us

Maintain and improve web pages for the Illinois Water Science Center and write scripts to help process their data