Hi, I'm Alex G.
About
I operate with a maker mindset and an uncompromising commitment to radical candor. I believe that elegant, resilient software requires pushing boundaries, challenging assumptions, and accepting that the bleeding edge is the only place worth standing. I build for scale that stays true to a humane user experience.
From distributed event-driven systems to pixel-perfect WebGL pipelines orchestration, I approach engineering from first principles as a unified medium for problem-solving.
Experience
Download ResumeDistributed Systems Engineer
Feb 2024 - PresentLed structural architectural initiatives, reducing annual infrastructure spend by $200K+ while increasing overall system reliability. Pioneered SLO-driven engineering to closely align UX decisions with backend performance constraints, and engineered automated workflows for white-label domain provisioning.
Lead Engineer
Jul 2023 - PresentOwned the complete delivery lifecycle of an analytics dashboard platform, scaling to support 15 colleges and universities while navigating a 12x MAU growth. Enforced strict WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and drastically improved system load capacity via deep SQL query plan analysis and complex indexing strategies.
Senior Engineer
2022 - 2023Architected high-performance marketing surfaces, including xumo.com, for a new line of Smart TVs. Engineered a strictly typed, composable library of over 70 React components, implemented an automated Cypress/Jest testing matrix in CI/CD, and integrated a headless CMS for dynamic client-side layout control.
Software Engineer
2021 - 2022Developed resilient full-stack feature sets for a B2B education analytics platform. Constructed a scalable GraphQL service layer over GCP, leveraging ETL pipelines and asynchronous background jobs to ingest cross-platform metrics, and utilized aggressive GCP observability tooling to preemptively diagnose production anomalies.
Cofounder
2015 - 2017Bootstrapped a highly decoupled event management platform modeling complex venue discovery via Yelp APIs and deterministic search optimization. Orchestrated operations across thousands of stakeholders natively, driving initial revenue generation through rapid iterative product development.
Featured Projects
A selection of things I've built, exploring new technologies and crafting beautiful interfaces.
- Terraform
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- Cloudflare
A high-performance Terminal UI for Interactive Brokers, featuring advanced strategy backtesting and precise order execution.
- Rust
A specialized RAG intelligent agent built to search, synthesize, and converse with classical Stoic literature.
- Python
- OpenAI
- Pinecone