Alex Ahn
Menifee,CA
Summary
Creative software engineer who likes to design structures.
I have many years of experience laying technological foundations at young startups. I prefer to solve problems from the ground up, and I enjoy designing new systems or architectures. I am a minimalist, and I believe the best designs often have the fewest moving parts.
My core skills are in abstract thinking and design. I have no problem implementing solutions, but my greatest work is done on a holistic level.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
Palette Labs
09.2025 - 01.2026
- Implemented weekly merchant report emails with CSV attachment for order history. (TypeScript, NodeJS)
- Implemented a feature to enable tax exempt customers. (TypeScript, NodeJS)
- Implemented a feature 2 integration to integrate merchant POS with Nosh's platform. (TypeScript, NodeJS)
- Finalized Square OAuth 2 integration to integrate merchant POS with Nosh's platform. (TypeScript, NodeJS)
- Created a set of tools to migrate data from a third party system to Nosh's platform. (TypeScript, NodeJS)
Software Engineer
Polymer Labs
09.2023 - 12.2023
- Designed and implemented a fault dispute game scenario runner that could take in arbitrary programs as inputs. (JavaScript, NodeJS)
Senior Software Engineer
Fetch Robotics (now part of Zebra Technologies)
07.2019 - 12.2019
- Designed and implemented a backend to enable a calendar frontend to schedule recurring automation processes. (Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC)
- Designed and implemented an automation engine that runs warehouse automation programs written in JavaScript. (Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC)
- Designed and implemented a frontend that enables users to create automation programs written in JavaScript through a visual editor, start and stop program executions, and view all running programs. (React.js, Redux)
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian
06.2017 - 07.2018
- Contributed to feature development for Confluence Cloud and Confluence Questions. (React.js, Redux)
- Designed and implemented a reference architecture for Confluence Questions as a single page application.
- Evangelized state-based routing architecture for Confluence Cloud.
- Designed and implemented deep-linking capabilities for Connect add-ons by extending Connect API.
- Reduced complexity for the Confluence Cloud web application project by re-organizing the repository.
- Refactored existing components to use GraphQL and latest design patterns. (React.js, GraphQL).
Software Engineer
Capsule
02.2016 - 11.2016
- Migrated servers from Catalyze Stratum to AWS. (Go, AWS, Ansible, Vagrant)
- Evangelized gitflow process and reached 100% adoption rate. (Git)
- Created a continuous delivery system for Capsule's services. (Ansible, Buildbot)
- Automated and codified Capsule's infrastructure end to end from developer to consumer. (Ansible, AWS)
- Created a centralized logging solution using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. (Ansible, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Created a centralized alerting solution using OpsGenie, CloudWatch, and Django. (OpsGenie, AWS, Django)
- Implemented a stable automated database backup solution for Capsule's core database by storing write ahead logs to S3. (Ansible)
- Created a heartbeat service that checks if Capsule's services are available. (Node.js, OpsGenie)
- Created a drug service API that returns patient education information given a national drug code. (Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL)
- Created an insurance service that looks up insurance information given first name, last name, and date of birth. (Node.js, Express, PhantomJS)
- Created a database reflection service to hook into Capsule's existing third party pharmacy solution software and built a notification system on top to notify Capsule’s pharmacists when there are new electronic prescriptions. (Node.js, Express, Gulp, Sequelize)
- Worked on features and improvements to Capsule's V1 API. (Go, PostgreSQL)
- Led V2 API development and architecture from its inception to its launch. (Python, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL)
- Led V2 web application development and architecture from its inception to its launch. (JavaScript, React.js, Redux, Webpack)
- Developed initial architecture of Capsule's V2 pharmacy solution software. (JavaScript, React.js, Redux, Webpack)
Senior Software Engineer
COTA
09.2014 - 06.2015
- Implemented a process to interview and hire engineers.
- Led technical exploration and research, established technical standards, and guided development.
- Optimized agile process by creating a flavor of agile that was better suited for our needs, managed application integrations (JIRA, GitHub, Slack), and set up application hooks.
- Handled security concerns from application architecture HIPAA compliance to organization logical security, and developed a user permissions system. (AWS, MySQL, Python, Django)
- Managed DevOps responsibilities and AWS server responsibilities, from spinning up instances to configuring and deploying them, from determining subdomain and VPC architecture to purchasing and installing certificates. (AWS, Ansible, Vagrant)
- Designed and developed the core backend APIs and led development with a team of four. (AWS, Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Node.js)
- Designed and developed the core frontend application and led development with a team of five. (Gulp, Browserify, Angular.js)
- Set up a fully replicate-able Elasticsearch cluster to index cancer patient data to allow better visibility via Kibana. (Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Kibana)
- Designed and developed a prototype analysis application to allow clinic administrators to ask complex questions regarding their cancer patients. (Gulp, Browserify, Angular.js)
Software Engineer
NewsCred
08.2013 - 09.2014
- Worked with a team to implement a new version of workflows for NewsCred's flagship Content Marketing Cloud product. (Grunt, Angular.js, Karma, Mocha, Sinon.js)
- Designed and developed a Single Sign-On platform for NewsCred to integrate all of NewsCred's application access, both for internal employees and clients, using the OpenID Connect protocol. (AWS, Node.js, Redis, MongoDB)
- Worked with a team to create a frontend application to allow internal employees to manage access key permissions for the SSO platform. (Grunt, Backbone.js)
- Worked with a team to maintain an existing internal contract management system and simultaneously developed a new one to allow for greater contract flexibility. (AWS, MySQL, Python, Django, Grunt, Angular.js)
- Handled DevOps responsibilities, such as writing playbooks and monitoring uptime, for the SSO application and the contract management application. (AWS, Ansible, Fabric)
Platform Engineer
Fuse Media
02.2012 - 07.2013
- Developed backend REST APIs for Fuse's content management system. (AWS, Node.js, MongoDB)
- Worked with a team to maintain and add features to Fuse's original content management system frontend, and simultaneously developed a new one in Angular.is in a modular fashion by creating re-useable directives for pagination, navigation, search, and more. (Angular.js, Bootstrap, jQueryUI)
- Heavily profiled the new content management system to ensure a low memory footprint, and removed memory leaks/bugs.
- Designed and developed backend/frontend for the Fuse Heat Tracker to detect trending artists on Twitter by processing and storing millions of tweets a day from Twitter's streaming API. (AWS, Node.js, Redis, DynamoDB, Require.js, Backbone.js, D3.js, Kinetic.js, Marionette.js)
- Benchmarked, profiled, and monitored the Fuse Heat Tracker backend.
- Designed and developed backend for Fuse Foto, which allowed our content team to create buckets for keywords of interest, ultimately aggregating images used in tweets from a variety of ingestion sources, such as yfrog, instagram, and twitpic. (AWS, Node.js, Redis, MongoDB, S3)
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California05-2011
Bachelor of Arts - Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California05-2011
Skills
- JavaScript
- Python
- Golang
- ReactJS
- NodeJS
- AWS
Timeline
Software Engineer
Palette Labs
09.2025 - 01.2026
Software Engineer
Polymer Labs
09.2023 - 12.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Fetch Robotics (now part of Zebra Technologies)
07.2019 - 12.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Atlassian
06.2017 - 07.2018
Software Engineer
Capsule
02.2016 - 11.2016
Senior Software Engineer
COTA
09.2014 - 06.2015
Software Engineer
NewsCred
08.2013 - 09.2014
Platform Engineer
Fuse Media
02.2012 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Arts - Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts - Statistics
University of California, Berkeley