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Software Engineering Leader

10M+ Billable Projects

15 Years of Experience

Richmond, VA

Experience

Simple Thread

Principal Software Engineer

2015 - CURRENT

simplethread.com

Software Consultancy focused on obtaining long-term clients by building high quality web applications. Listed in the Inc. 5000 three years running.

Played a major role in growing the company from a headcount of 4 to 32.

Responsibilities divided between hands-on coding and leadership duties including architecture, mentoring, hiring and maintaining high coding standards.

Progressed Titles: Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Principal Software Engineer

Wrote and launched applications for 10+ clients.

Acted as engineering lead for a number of high impact projects.

Jumpstart

IT Manager

2007 - 2015

jumpstartinc.net

Developed custom software and leveraged off-the-shelf applications to optimize startup manufacturing processes.

Lead SAP B1 integration replacing paper and excel systems.

Built custom dashboards that were used for productivity audits leading to an increase in total plant output of 22% and reducing scrap.

Automated data entry and image processing to save hundreds of employee hours per month.

Wrote scripts to study and optimize ink usage resulting in a 2.5% reduction of raw material costs.

Work

Watchtower

  1. SaaS Enterprise Risk Management Application
  2. Utilized by 30+ financial institutions and tech companies such as Google and Amazon. Provides oversight for a combined $500B+ in assets.
  3. Regularly pentested by 3rd parties scoring top marks.
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Anode

  1. Helps electrical engineers plan transmission line maintenance while maintaining grid reliability.
  2. Paid for it's development costs in the first month of operation by flagging an undiscovered NERC violation.
  3. Integrates with a wide array of enterprise systems
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Yardsmart

  1. Full system for running a self-service auto recycling yard
  2. Serves as a Point of Sale with hardware integrations including credit card machines, receipt printers and cash drawers
  3. Vehicle inventory management on mobile devices using QR Codes
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The Giving Wall

  1. Donations help people get back on their feet
  2. Integrates with Stripe Connect to support multiple organizations
  3. Robust payment processing prevents race conditions for single quantity purchases
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Endorsements

You want Alex on your team. He is not only a highly skilled and diligent engineer, but he balances technical and business concerns as well as any engineer I've ever worked with. Alex cares deeply about his work, levels up his team members, and attacks problems tenaciously. I can't recommend Alex enough.

Justin Etheredge

CEO

I have learned so much from Alex over the years. Requirements gathering, architecture, build, validation, deployment, and more: Alex has deep experience at every step in the software development process. With him, complex problems fade into solutions. On top of that, he has a genuinely uncanny knack for identifying bugs that no one else catches. I loved my time working with Alex, and I look forward to the day I work with him again.

Stephen Kiningham

Director of Software Engineering

Alex is a talented problem solver, desiging elegant applications that are both robust and scalable

Josh Moore

Quality Manager

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