Alex Rivera

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

6+ Experience

Full-stack software engineer with 6+ years of experience crafting high-scale microservices, responsive web frontends, and cloud-native infrastructure. Passionate about system design, developer tooling, and crisp user experiences.

San Francisco, CA (Remote Friendly)

+84 912 345 678

Explore Projects

Core Technical Stack

Production-grade toolchain

Frontend Engineering

React 19

Next.js (App Router)

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS v4

Zustand

Redux Toolkit

Backend & Systems

Node.js / Express

Go (Golang)

Python / FastAPI

PostgreSQL

Redis

gRPC & GraphQL

Cloud & DevOps

Docker & Kubernetes

AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3)

Terraform

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Kafka

Prometheus & Grafana

Connect Directly

Open for technical discussions, contracts, or full-time roles.

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Engineering Portfolio

Featured Projects & Systems

Production architectures, open-source libraries, and interactive applications engineered for reliability and scale.

Featured System

342

NexusCloud Engine

Distributed workflow orchestration engine handling 10k+ concurrent asynchronous task executions.

Key Metric:

10k+ tasks/sec throughput

Next.js

TypeScript

Redis

Featured System

520

PromptForge AI Platform

Collaborative prompt engineering IDE with multi-model evals, token diffing, and automated test runners.

Key Metric:

45% faster model evaluation

React 19

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

Zustand

Featured System

890

AuraKV Distributed Store

In-memory LSM-tree key-value store with raft consensus and pluggable storage tiers.

Key Metric:

180k QPS single-node throughput

Raft Consensus

LSM-Tree

gRPC

410

Horizon UI Component System

Accessible, keyboard-first headless component system designed for enterprise design systems.

Key Metric:

100% WCAG 2.1 AA compliance

React

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Radix UI

275

KubeTraffic Ingress Controller

Lightweight eBPF-powered Kubernetes network traffic shaper and dynamic rate limiter.

Key Metric:

Reduced ingress CPU overhead by 35%

Kubernetes

eBPF

Envoy

Docker

Career Journey

Work Experience & Leadership

A chronological track record of shipping production architectures, leading engineering teams, and optimizing distributed platforms.

Staff / Lead Full-Stack Engineer

2023 — Present

Apex Scale Systems•San Francisco, CA

Leading frontend and distributed backend architecture for real-time customer data streaming platform.

Spearheaded migration to Next.js App Router and edge caching, improving p75 TTFB by 42%.

Architected multi-tenant event pipeline ingesting 150M+ events daily with 99.99% availability.

Mentored team of 8 full-stack engineers and established strict code review and CI/CD benchmarks.

Next.js

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Kafka

AWS

Senior Full-Stack Developer

2021 — 2023

Vanguard Tech Labs•Austin, TX (Remote)

Built cloud management dashboard and analytics backend for enterprise container infrastructure.

Designed and implemented high-density telemetry dashboards with real-time WebSocket state streaming.

Refactored backend microservices from monolith into decoupled Go and Node.js services.

Decreased AWS cloud compute costs by 28% via container bin-packing and caching layers.

React

Node.js

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

GraphQL

Software Engineer

2019 — 2021

Pixel & Bit Studios•Seattle, WA

Developed modern web applications and customer-facing platforms for high-growth tech startups.

Shipped 12+ high-performance web products with top-tier Lighthouse scores (95+).

Introduced automated unit & integration testing suite, increasing coverage from 20% to 85%.

TypeScript

React

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

Tailwind CSS

Academic & Credentials

Education & Professional Certifications

Formal computer science foundations paired with industry-recognized cloud and distributed systems certifications.

Academic Foundations

B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

Summa Cum Laude (GPA 3.92/4.0)

2015 — 2019•Berkeley, CA

Specialized in distributed systems, operating systems, and algorithm design. Conducted research on concurrent data structures and zero-copy network I/O.

Key Focus:

Distributed Systems

Operating Systems

Compilers

Advanced Algorithms

Database Architecture

Graduate Certificate in Cloud & Systems Architecture

Stanford Online

2020 — 2021•Online / Stanford, CA

Intensive graduate-level program focusing on large-scale distributed computing, microservice fault tolerance, and consensus algorithms.

Key Focus:

Distributed Consensus

High-Throughput Storage

Cloud Security

Industry Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2024 — 2027

Credential ID: AWS-PSA-993821

Cloud Architecture

Multi-Region VPC

High Availability

Disaster Recovery

Cost Optimization

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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

2023 — 2026

Credential ID: CKA-774910

Kubernetes

Cluster Architecture

eBPF Networking

RBAC

Storage & Pod Scheduling

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Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud

2023 — 2025

Credential ID: GCP-PCA-44109

GKE

BigQuery

IAM Security

Cloud Run

Terraform Infrastructure

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Meta Certified Full-Stack Engineer