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Alex Rivera

Software Engineer · Backend & Distributed Systems

Summary

Backend engineer with 5 years building payment and data services at scale. Cut p99 latency 40% and led a 4-person team through a zero-downtime migration.

Experience

Software Engineer · FinPay2021 — Present

Cut checkout p99 latency 40% by adding read-replicas and a caching layer serving 8M requests/day
Led a zero-downtime migration of the ledger service; reconciliation errors dropped to 0.3%
Mentored 2 juniors; introduced trunk-based CI that cut mean PR-to-deploy from 3 days to 4 hours

Junior Developer · Cloudset2019 — 2021

Built REST APIs in Go used by 30+ internal teams
Added contract tests that caught 12 breaking changes before release

Skills

Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

Education

B.Tech Computer Science

Why this works

✓Lead every bullet with the outcome and a number — recruiters scan the first few words.
✓Show scale (requests/day, users, $ moved), not just tasks.
✓One language deeply beats five listed shallowly.
✓Put your strongest, most JD-relevant work in the top third of page one.