Alex Grover
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Alex Grover

Software Engineer in Las Vegas, NV

Making coffee

2 years ago

About

Likes building things

Work Experience

2023 — Now
Remote
2020 — 2023
Remote
  • Engineering Manager for the Platform team
  • Built out task and workflow management tools to scale operations, including both web and mobile products
  • Led development of frontend React/TypeScript component library
2017 — 2018
San Francisco, CA
  • Ruby on Rails and Java development on the Payments Infrastructure team
  • Worked on feature extraction of payment processors from existing monolith into microservices
2015 — 2017
San Francisco, CA
  • Built payment microservice in Python 3 and Flask, serving up to 10,000 requests/minute with a p99 response time of 80ms and zero exceptions
  • Built merchant web portal in React and mobile app backend in Python 2 and Django. Used by 10,000+ merchants weekly to manage operations
  • Scaled DoorDash Drive (b2b fulfillment product) 4x in weekly revenue as a tech lead

Projects

2022

Built MVP with Next.js, Tailwind, Express, and GraphQL.

2021

Built podcast company website using Next.js and Tailwind with data from the Megaphone API.

2020

Full stack freelance software development with React/Next.js and Node.js. Built out MVP of analytics aggregation tool using Puppeteer with one other developer.

Writing

2019

A discussion about architecture conventions for Python backends.

Education

2011 — 2015
Stanford, CA
  • BS, Computer Science, Systems Track
  • President, Kappa Sigma Fraternity
2007 — 2011
Lafayette, CA

Contact

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