Alexander Klen


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About Me

Staff Software Developer - Full-Stack Coding, Software Architecture, Tech Lead, Project Management
Experience designing, building, and deploying distributed web applications in multiple industries

Tech Lead for team of 8 engineers. Sprint master, project manager, software architect
Designed and built new platform and applications for experimental business vertical. Concept to market in 6 months. Launched in major global markets. Rapidly growing; continuing to build large product features
Continual collaboration with eng manager, product manager, designer, general manager, account and strategy, facility, support & operations
Presented multiple team projects to CEO and engineering organization
Professional development mentor
Leveraged modern microservice architecture, GRPC, message queues, Cockroach DB, GraphQL, Trino
Earned promotion to staff level

Payments Tech Lead for Google Domains (Registrar)
Led team in major payments system upgrade, country and currency launches, fraud prevention improvements, payment stats and auditing pipeline
Implemented automatic TLS cert provisioning, integrations with Google Business and Google Sites
Completed projects for new ICANN transfer policy, registry integration, registrar-side .APP & .DEV TLD launches
Earned two promotions. Presentations on payments, authentication, security. Mentoring and interviewing

Google: Adwords MapReduce data migration pipelines, real-time logs processing regression test improvements
Facebook: Crowdsourcing in Graph Search, contextual Wikipedia snippets, photo map search visualization
LinkedIn: iOS UI redesign, employee dogfooding versioning system, node.js APIs and HTML5 iPad application
Salesforce: Rypple/Success Cloud performance review app - full-stack development on OKR and email features

With Distinction, Dean's Honours List, 3.96 overall GPA (cumulative 93.15%)
Advanced Algorithms, AI, Compilers, Computer Graphics, Operating Systems, Networks