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Alex Vance
Senior Full-Stack & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
San Francisco, CA (Open to Remote)
About Me
Results-driven engineer with 6+ years designing high-throughput distributed microservices, scalable cloud platforms, and modern web applications. Proven track record reducing system latencies by 40% and mentoring 10+ engineers.
Work Experience
Staff Backend & Infrastructure Engineer | CloudScale Systems
2022 – Present • San Francisco, CA
•Architected event-driven microservices platform with Go and Kafka handling 85k+ RPS at sub-15ms p99 latency
•Automated multi-region AWS Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure via Terraform, decreasing deployment cycle times by 65%
•Led technical design reviews across 4 agile teams and established zero-trust observability with Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
Technologies:Go • Kafka • Kubernetes • AWS • Terraform • PostgreSQL
Full-Stack Engineer | Apex Fintech
2020 – 2022 • New York, NY (Remote)
•Engineered real-time asset trading dashboard with Next.js, React, and WebSocket streaming serving 120k daily active traders
•Built robust transactional payment microservices with Node.js and Redis distributed locks with zero financial reconciliation errors
•Implemented end-to-end CI/CD test automation pipelines achieving 94% test coverage
Technologies:TypeScript • React • Next.js • Node.js • Redis • Docker
Software Developer | Nexus Labs
2018 – 2020 • Boston, MA
•Developed RESTful and GraphQL APIs for client-facing SaaS analytics tools used by 45+ enterprise clients
•Optimized PostgreSQL database queries and indexing, cutting heavy dashboard report execution time from 12s to 600ms
Technologies:Python • Django • PostgreSQL • React • GraphQL
Projects
RaftKV — Distributed Consensus Store(Lead Creator & Maintainer)
github.com/alexvance-dev/raft-kvHigh-performance Raft consensus key-value database in Rust featuring zero-copy serialization and linearizable reads (1.4k GitHub stars).
Stack:Rust • Raft • gRPC • Tokio
KubePulse — Cluster Cost & Telemetry Visualizer(Creator)
kubepulse.devLightweight Kubernetes cost monitor that identifies unallocated memory & CPU allocations to reduce cloud expenditure.
Stack:Next.js • Go • Kubernetes API • Tailwind CSS
Technical Skills
Languages:TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Python, Rust, SQL, HTML5/CSS3
Backend & Systems:Node.js, Express, gRPC, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch
Frontend:React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Redux, Zustand, Webpack/Vite
Cloud & DevOps:AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Linux, Prometheus
Education
B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering2014 – 2018
University of California, Berkeley
Dean's Honors List • Focus: Distributed Systems & Operating Systems
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Amazon Web Services)2023
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) (Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF))2022
Honors & Awards
1st Place Winner — Global Infrastructure Hackathon2023
Major League Hacking / CNCF • Developed automated zero-downtime canary deployment operator for Kubernetes.
Engineering Innovation Award2024
CloudScale Systems • Recognized for architecting cost-saving multi-tenant caching layer.
Languages
English:Native
German:B2