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by astangl 24 days ago

  Location: St. Louis, MO USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Scala, Clojure, Java, TypeScript, AWS, Akka, Spark, Cats, ZIO, React, Kubernetes, Terraform, various AI, DevOps, microservices; brushing up on Rust and Golang
  Résumé/CV: https://resume.alex.stangl.us/
  Email: alex.stangl@gmail.com

Senior backend engineer with deep experience in distributed systems, Scala, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling. Strong background in functional programming, CI/CD modernization, and scalable services. Remote strongly preferred, but will consider opportunities in the St. Louis, MO area. US citizen.

I have experience in developing web applications using various UI stacks, but prefer backend development. I have experience as team lead, technical lead, and mentor. I am also a big proponent of leveraging AI tools for code generation/inspection/reasoning, and automation, striving to make life easier for both developers and end-users. I enjoy working on interesting and challenging problems, especially science-related ones, and on systems that impact large numbers of people. Contributing to open source projects would be a huge plus. With my background and skills, I will be an asset to your team.

Coworkers and friends look to me for programming advice and assistance in solving complex problems. I relish challenging projects. I strive to write exceptionally clean code, along with suites of thorough unit and integration tests. I am pragmatic, and bear performance in mind, however. Multiple times I've profiled and analyzed code and design, and identified opportunities to speed up and/or reduce footprint by a factor of 1000x or more.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexstangl

https://github.com/astangl