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Alex Rivera

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
alex.rivera@email.com+1 (415) 555-0192San Francisco, CAhttps://alexrivera.devlinkedin.com/in/alexrivera

Summary

Senior Full-Stack Engineer with 7+ years building scalable web applications and distributed systems. Passionate about clean architecture, developer experience, and mentoring junior engineers. Track record of reducing page load times by 60% and shipping features used by 5M+ users. Open-source contributor with 2,400+ GitHub stars.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer | StripeMar 2021 – Present

San Francisco, CA
  • Lead engineer on the Payments Infrastructure team, responsible for the real-time transaction processing pipeline handling $1B+ daily volume.
  • Redesigned the payment retry logic, reducing failed transaction rate by 34% and recovering $12M in annual revenue.
  • Built a distributed rate-limiter in Go that processes 400K req/s with sub-millisecond latency at p99.
  • Led migration of 6 legacy Ruby services to a TypeScript/Node.js microservice architecture, cutting mean deploy time from 45 min to 4 min.
  • Mentored 4 junior engineers and conducted 50+ technical interviews; improved team hiring pass rate by 20%.

Software Engineer II | AirbnbJun 2018 – Feb 2021

San Francisco, CA
  • Full-stack engineer on the Search & Discovery team, owning the search ranking algorithm and front-end results page.
  • Re-architected the search results React app with code-splitting and lazy loading, improving Core Web Vitals score from 43 to 91.
  • Built a real-time pricing experimentation framework (A/B testing) serving 200M+ queries/day, directly contributing to a 7% booking rate lift.
  • Implemented server-side rendering with Next.js, reducing Time-to-First-Byte by 58%.

Software Engineer | Pivotal LabsAug 2016 – May 2018

New York, NY
  • Consulting engineer embedded with client teams to deliver greenfield applications and modernize legacy codebases.
  • Delivered 8 client projects end-to-end using React, Ruby on Rails, and PostgreSQL within tight 3-month sprints.
  • Introduced TDD practices across three client teams, increasing test coverage from <20% to >85%.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | Carnegie Mellon UniversityAug 2012 – May 2016

Focus on Distributed Systems & Programming Languages. Dean's List all 8 semesters. President of ACM student chapter. GPA: 3.82

Core Skills

TypeScript, React, Node.js, Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GraphQL, Next.js, Terraform, CI/CD

Projects

OpenRPC — API Schema ToolkitJan 2020

https://github.com/alexrivera/openrpc

TypeScript, Node.js, JSON Schema, GitHub Actions

Open-source library for auto-generating type-safe API clients from JSON-RPC schemas. 2,400+ GitHub stars, 180K weekly npm downloads. Used by 300+ companies including Cloudflare and Figma.

Latency DashboardNov 2022 – Dec 2022

https://github.com/alexrivera/latency-dash

React, D3.js, WebSockets, ClickHouse

Real-time observability dashboard for distributed systems latency analysis. Features p50/p95/p99 percentile tracking, flame graphs, and Slack alerting. Built during a 48-hour internal hackathon; now used by 12 engineering teams at Stripe.

devenv-cliMar 2023

https://github.com/alexrivera/devenv-cli

Go, Docker, YAML, Cobra CLI

CLI tool that spins up reproducible local dev environments in <30 seconds using Docker Compose. 800+ GitHub stars.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional | Amazon Web ServicesSep 2022

https://aws.amazon.com/certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) | Cloud Native Computing FoundationMar 2021

https://www.cncf.io/certification/cka/

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer | Google CloudJul 2023

https://cloud.google.com/certification