Alex C. Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I’m an engineer on the Customer Foundations team. We build the Customers module of the Seller Dashboard, Digital Receipts, Feedback, and Square Profile, as well as the underlying services that power customer and buyer data across all Square merchants.Responsibilities: leading technical direction of team’s frontend, building services for global buyer platform, leading g11n for new markets, conducting technical interviews, improving on-call processes

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

I was an engineer on the Digital Workplace team - creating smarter and more efficient workplaces globally.Responsibilities: public facing API development, cloud-based solution architecture (PaaS), mobile development in React Native, web development in React, Scrum master, conducting technical interviews, guiding technology initiatives+ Introduced and implemented modern standards in distributed telemetry practices across multiple services and clients.+ Preemptively identified and fixed pre-existing time zone issues in critical endpoints of pre-release APIs.+ Researched, presented, and implemented modern HTTP load balancing of global services with Azure, reducing 95 percentile latency across APIs by 40%.+ Led architectural design/implementation of failure handling across APIs and public-facing clients.+ Mentored multiple frontend and backend developers on full-stack development.+ Served as tech lead during production release of 1+ year project. Facilitated readiness of owned services and client applications while aligning with consuming teams.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I was an engineer on a team developing www.geocaching.com (+partner API and mobile apps) - a real life, global GPS treasure hunt.Responsibilities: writing microservices for distributed systems, writing public facing REST APIs, solution architecture, overseeing JIRA grooming sessions, front end development, dev ops, agile development, continuous integration/continuous deployment+ Rewrote core microservices to leverage message broker to help with horizontal scaling.+ Removed redundancies in continuous integration/continuous deployment on TeamCity, reducing build and deploy times on major projects by as much as 50%.+ Hosted brown bags and mob programming sessions for other engineers to learn React.+ Created automated localization pipeline (20+ locales) from Git check-ins to third party translation service and vice versa.+ Created automated system for scheduled service bus message retries and introduced dead-letter queues.+ Proposed and led implementation of JWT-based HttpOnly cookie authentication via API proxy - resulting in increased security, less client code, and significantly decreased stress on account services (90% decreased load - mitigating most frequent bottleneck during outages).+ Led implementation of backend Single Sign On integrations with Facebook and OpenID Connect OAuth2 providers (Apple, Google). Provided guidance for multiple teams on client integrations for iOS, Android, React Native, React, and Backbone-based web applications.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us

I was an engineer developing a variety of software solutions for clients from local businesses to global brands. + Developed eCommerce site, generating over a million dollars in sales within the first 3 months after launch.+ Refactored customer-facing product configurator for a global furniture manufacturer.+ Integrated Dynamics GP to asset management system.+ Developed and maintained features within an insurance sales platform. Rewrote legacy report generator to see up to 99% execution time decrease on multiple reports.