About Me

Building software that
actually works

I'm a software developer with 5+ years of experience building full-stack web applications. I care deeply about code quality, developer experience, and shipping products that people actually want to use.

My career has taken me from agency work on client projects to startups where I've been an early engineer responsible for foundational architecture decisions. I thrive in environments where I can own significant parts of the product and work closely with designers and product managers.

Outside of work, I contribute to open source projects, write about software on my blog, and occasionally speak at local meetups. I believe the best engineers are relentlessly curious and never stop learning.

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Coffee enthusiast — currently exploring single-origin pour-overs
Plays guitar badly; working on it since 2019
Avid reader: history, sci-fi, and software design books
Based in San Francisco, CA
Alex Chen

5+ Years

Experience

Skills

Technical Expertise

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptGoPythonSQL

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTanStackTailwind CSSFramer Motion

Backend

Node.jsExpressFastifyGraphQLREST APIs

Data

PostgreSQLRedisPrismaDrizzleMongoDB

DevOps

DockerAWSNetlifyGitHub ActionsTerraform

Tools

GitVim/NeovimFigmaLinearDatadog

Experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Streamline AI

2022 – Present

Led development of a real-time data pipeline processing 50M+ events/day. Architected the migration from a monolith to a domain-driven microservices system, reducing deployment lead time by 70%.

TypeScriptGoKafkaKubernetes

Software Engineer

BuilderStack

2020 – 2022

Built the core product from the ground up — a collaborative development environment used by 20,000+ developers. Owned the real-time collaboration features and the VS Code extension.

ReactNode.jsWebSocketsPostgreSQL

Junior Developer

Agencia Digital

2018 – 2020

Developed client-facing web applications for fintech and retail industries. Introduced modern React patterns and a component library that became the team standard.

ReactTypeScriptRuby on Rails