Alex Engel, Developer in Seattle, WA, United States
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Alex Engel

Bio

Alex is a motivated full-stack engineer with seven years of experience creating and deploying scalable web applications from the ground up. His favorite technologies to work with are React and TypeScript on the front end and Node.js or Java Spring on the back end, deployed with tools such as Docker, AWS, and TeamCity. Alex is seeking positions that involve architecting modern solutions to challenging problems for clients who require effective communication, dedicated teamwork, and clean code.

Portfolio

Indeed
Artificial Intelligence (AI), GraphQL, GraphQL Federation, Apollo Server...
Indeed
TypeScript, GraphQL, GraphQL Federation, Java, Kotlin...
AMPLYFI, Ltd.
React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS)...

Experience

  • Web Applications - 12 years
  • Java - 12 years
  • TypeScript - 10 years
  • React - 10 years
  • MongoDB - 9 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
  • GraphQL - 4 years
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 3 years

Preferred Environment

Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), React, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Java, Python, Docker, JavaScript

The most amazing...

...product I've created is a scalable, industry-leading federated search engine that aggregates, clusters, and ranks documents from over 500 sources.

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer | Technical Lead

2023 - PRESENT
Indeed
  • Designed and implemented multiple agentic experiences for Data Platform tools, resulting in drastically accelerated time-to-insight for users. These projects involved creating custom agents and orchestrators, MCP servers, and other components.
  • Conceptualized, designed, and led others in delivering a domain-specific language and supporting infrastructure for Indeed Messaging, enabling other teams to create custom cross-platform experiences within an employer/jobseeker conversation.
  • Excelled as the technical lead for a team of nine engineers. Interfaced with senior leaders and stakeholders to guide technical direction for the team. Formally and informally mentored engineers in designing and delivering complex features.
  • Became an early adopter of AI workflow-improvement tools, including Claude Code, Cursor, MCP servers, Perplexity, and others. Shared innovative workflows with others and consistently advocated for broader usage of these tools.
  • Championed large initiatives across the Messaging Platform and Data Platform areas, including proper implementation/consumption of federated GraphQL APIs, creation of a component library shared across employer and jobseeker applications, and more.
Technologies: Artificial Intelligence (AI), GraphQL, GraphQL Federation, Apollo Server, Apollo Client, TypeScript, Java, Snowflake, Cursor AI, Claude, Kotlin, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MongoDB

Senior Software Engineer

2021 - 2023
Indeed
  • Architected, implemented, and delivered an interview management product that serves more than 100,000 DAU, resulting in stat-sig increases and decreases in completed interviews and canceled/rescheduled interviews, respectively.
  • Architected and led others in implementing a refactor for a legacy interview email system. This refactor led to a significant decrease in dropped emails and a 50%+ reduction in time spent managing production issues in the system by on-call engineers.
  • Collaborated with managers to overhaul the processes for two teams. Significantly improved engineering velocity by ensuring that the team had a unified goal for each sprint and that the work taken on made significant progress towards this goal.
  • Performed highly as the de facto technical lead for two sister teams consisting of 18 engineers total, providing guidance on technical designs and maintaining high standards for code contributions.
Technologies: TypeScript, GraphQL, GraphQL Federation, Java, Kotlin, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Amazon Web Services (AWS), MongoDB

Full-stack Engineer

2020 - 2021
AMPLYFI, Ltd.
  • Led the front-end development of a new, state-of-the-art federated search engine which has since become the company's best-selling SaaS offering.
  • Harvested over six million documents for a machine learning pipeline using targeted querying and web crawling. The POC for this project led to the company's largest recurring contract to date.
  • Maintained and deployed legacy federated search applications for over 30 customers.
  • Created an administrative API that allows internal and external admins to configure pieces of their application, deprecating an extremely time-consuming manual process.
Technologies: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), TeamCity, Linux, Elasticsearch, Python, Web Applications

Full-stack Engineer

2018 - 2020
Deep Web Technologies, Inc.
  • Developed a redesigned front end for a legacy federated search engine. This redesign played a key part in the multimillion-dollar acquisition of DWT by AMPLYFI in 2020.
  • Maintained and added new features to over 40 customer applications.
  • Implemented server-side caching for search engine result sets, resulting in much faster response times for many queries.
  • Performed miscellaneous system administration tasks on over 15 Linux servers.
Technologies: JavaScript, React, Java, Linux, System Administration, Knockout (Knockout.js), Web Applications

Software Engineer

2016 - 2018
Freelance
  • Developed and deployed a web app to replace a legacy volunteer recruitment website. Used React and Node.js in conjunction with Bootstrap. This resulted in a 50% increase in customer conversion.
  • Aided in developing a regatta timing application using React Native, Node.js, and Firebase. Since then, the application has been adopted by some of the largest regatta organizers in the world.
  • Gained experience working remotely with a small team of engineers and project managers.
Technologies: React, JavaScript, Firebase, Node.js, React Native, Web Applications

Software Development Intern

2015 - 2015
Philips
  • Used the ASP.NET MVC 4 framework to create a RESTful web service that queries a SQL database via HTTP requests. Implemented public and private key authorization for security.
  • Created an administrative website allowing authenticated and authorized users to delete archives via the web service.
  • Created a console application to act as a client to the web service and retrieve archives over a firewall via SFTP.
Technologies: ASP.NET, SQL, REST, Web Applications

Experience

Federated Search Engine for Researchers

A modern, scalable, and containerized web application that enables researchers to search over 400 web, paid, and internal sources with one click. I served as a full-stack engineer for this product and was involved with developing the front-end of the application using React and TypeScript.

Education

2012 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Symbolic Systems

Stanford University - Stanford, CA

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, Apollo Client

Tools

Claude, TeamCity

Languages

TypeScript, Java, JavaScript, GraphQL, Python, Kotlin, SQL, Snowflake

Paradigms

REST, Human-computer Interaction (HCI)

Storage

MongoDB, Elasticsearch

Frameworks

Knockout (Knockout.js), React Native, ASP.NET

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Firebase

Other

Web Applications, GraphQL Federation, Apollo Server, Cursor AI, Data Visualization, Artificial Intelligence (AI), System Administration

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