Alex Rivera

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Executive Summary

Passionate and results-driven senior software engineer with 6+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling high-performance web applications. Expert in modern backend development, cloud solutions, and modular frontend architectures.

Work Experience

Stripe

Senior Software Engineer

Led a cross-functional team of 5 engineers to redesign and modularize core subscription billing components, improving API response latency by 35%. Architected and executed clean migrations of legacy payment systems to robust event-driven microservices utilizing Laravel, Kafka, and Redis. Introduced thorough automated testing workflows using PHPUnit and Jest, lifting core line coverage from 42% to 89% globally.

Global Software Partners

Software Engineer

Spearheaded core operations and delivered exceptional value to enterprise clients. Optimized internal processes, increasing overall efficiency by over 20%. Collaborated directly with senior stakeholders to align strategy with technical execution.

Innovate Tech

Full Stack Developer

Developed and maintained highly responsive user interfaces using Vue.js and Tailwind CSS, increasing client dashboard engagement by 40%. Optimized MySQL query indexes and restructured relational database layouts, saving over $15,000/year in cloud hosting infrastructure charges.

Dynamic Solutions LLC

Associate Software

Assisted in the daily management of departmental objectives and analytics reporting. Maintained a 98% client satisfaction rating across all assigned accounts. Developed foundational skills in industry-standard software and methodologies.

Featured Projects

OpenCart SaaS Billing Engine

Laravel, Redis, TailwindCSS, Vue

A scalable billing module supporting real-time webhook operations and transactional payment flows. Handles 50,000+ daily requests.

Core Skills

Laravel PHP Vue.js React Docker Kubernetes MySQL Redis Kafka TypeScript AWS Cloud Python Go Node.js PostgreSQL MongoDB Elasticsearch CI/CD GitOps Terraform Microservices GraphQL REST APIs gRPC System Design Agile/Scrum TDD Next.js Spring Boot Django RabbitMQ GCP Azure Linux WebSockets OAuth2 Prometheus Grafana Serverless Jenkins GitHub Actions

Certifications & Credentials

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

References

Sarah Jenkins

Managing Director