Alexander Fennell
Software Engineer
Philadelphia,PA
Summary
Expertise in building scalable, reliable and extensible distributed systems. Passionate about design patterns, clean code, testing techniques, microservices and distributed systems.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
SOFTWARE ENGINEER 2
GOPUFF
1 2022 - Current
- Building distributed backend systems to power Gopuff’s warehouse management system (WMS)
- Architected and implemented microservices to power Gopuff’s internal inventory and warehousing client application (goInventory)
- Designed, built and delivered service to receive and emit inventory order updates, used as the interface into warehousing information and operations from outside domains
- Translated legacy systems into modern distributed systems primarily running on Azure Kubernetes using Go
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
MICROSOFT
03.2020 - 01.2022
- Received US Patent 11792328 B2 "Call Context Transfer From One Call Center System To Other Call Center System(s)"
- Delivered greenfield projects to implement legacy incoming customer service call flows on a 1st party Microsoft stack, including Xbox North America customer support, primarily using C#/.NET
- Developed call center agnostic backend service to pass contextual call information and control call transfers between call centers
- Provided technical mentorship and advice to teammates
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
SAP AMERICAS
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Developed full-stack integration testing application to be shipped with SAP’s
- IBP product to automate data integrity testing
- Received 20% ownership of patent “Automated Testing for Enterprise Cloud
- Applications”
- Developed Python scripts to automate optimal input parameter selection for
- IBP’s forecasting algorithms
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Drexel University
08.2018 - 09.2021
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 05.2013 - 08.2017
Skills
Distributed Systems
Microservice Architecture
Database Design
Unit and Integration Testing
Async Processing and Messaging
Hobbies
KidsAndCars.org - Volunteer Software Engineer (2019-present)
Built news article discovery and archiving tool for non-for-profit organization in the child safety space
Streamlined existing process from multiple hours per day to minutes
Fantasy Football Stats - Creator (2022-present)
Developed website to display in-depth stats and historical results for fantasy football leagues
Integrates with ESPN and Yahoo fantasy football platforms
Algorithmic Trading - Hobbyist (2022-present)
Identify and implement various quantitative trading strategies
Uses Alpaca's Trading API for automated stock market trading
Timeline
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
MICROSOFT
03.2020 - 01.2022
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
SAP AMERICAS
01.2019 - 01.2020
Master of Science - Computer Science
Drexel University
08.2018 - 09.2021
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University of South Carolina
05.2013 - 08.2017
SOFTWARE ENGINEER 2
GOPUFF
1 2022 - Current