Alexander Klen
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About Me
- Staff Software Engineer - Full-Stack Coding, Software Architecture, Tech Lead, Project Management
- Experience designing, building, and deploying distributed web applications in multiple industries
Experience
Stealth Company - Staff Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer - Remote - 2020-present
- 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
- Delivered multiple integrations with business partners and customers; collaborated on regular calls.
- Continual collaboration with eng manager, product manager, designer, general manager, account and strategy, facility, support & operations
- Presented multiple projects to CEO and engineering organization
- Leveraged modern microservice architecture, GRPC, message queues, Cockroach DB, GraphQL, Trino
- Earned promotion to staff level. Professional development mentor
Google LLC. - Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer - Seattle and Remote - 2015-2020
- 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
Various - Software Engineering Intern - 2011-2014, 2 years cumulative
- 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
Personal Projects
- Mobile Game - Android platformer game
- Wedding Website - Wedding website one-page app in Haskell
- 3D Rendering Engine - 3D rendering engine demo in C++ with OpenGL
- Multi-User Dungeon - Online real-time multiplayer adventure game in Python
- Biologically-inspired neuron simulator and neural net evolver
- Personal finance and portfolio management platform
Education
University of Waterloo - Bachelor of Software Engineering - 2010-2015
- With Distinction, Dean's Honours List, 3.96 overall GPA (cumulative 93.15%)
- Advanced Algorithms, AI, Compilers, Computer Graphics, Operating Systems, Networks