Alex Peter-Resume

Alex Peter

📧 alex.peter@email.com 📱 (555) 123-4567 📍 San Francisco, CA 🔗 linkedin.com/in/alex-peter 🐙 githAlex Peterub.com/alexpeter

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and AI-powered applications at high-growth tech companies. Proven expertise in backend development (Java, Python, Go), cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and machine learning deployment. Delivered systems handling 10M+ daily users with 99.99% uptime. Passionate about engineering excellence, technical mentorship, and solving complex scalability challenges.

Technical Skills

Java Python Go TypeScript React Node.js TensorFlow PyTorch Kubernetes Docker AWS GCP Kafka gRPC CI/CD

Professional Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Google (YouTube)
  • Designed and implemented a real-time recommendation ranking service using TensorFlow Serving and Kubernetes, improving CTR by 12% and reducing latency by 35%.
  • Architected a sharded microservice for user activity logging handling 500K RPM; migrated from monolith to event-driven architecture using Kafka and gRPC.
  • Led a team of 5 engineers to build a scalable A/B testing framework adopted by 20+ product teams, increasing experiment velocity by 40%.
  • Optimized CI/CD pipelines with Bazel and internal tooling, reducing build time from 15min to 4min and deployment failures by 60%.

Software Engineer

Meta (Facebook)
  • Developed backend services for Facebook Groups’ notification system in Java and Thrift, serving 2B+ users with sub-100ms p99 latency.
  • Integrated ML models for spam detection (PyTorch) into production pipelines, reducing false positives by 22% and manual review load by 30%.
  • Contributed to internal Kubernetes operator for stateful services, improving deployment reliability and reducing on-call incidents by 45%.
  • Mentored 3 junior engineers; conducted code reviews and design doc feedback for cross-team initiatives.

Software Developer

Netflix
  • Built and maintained backend services for personalized content discovery using Spring Boot and Cassandra; handled 10M+ daily requests.
  • Designed a fault-tolerant caching layer with Redis and Hazelcast, reducing database load by 70% and improving API response time by 50%.
  • Implemented observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack; reduced mean time to detect (MTTD) incidents by 65%.
  • Participated in SRE rotation; improved service SLA from 99.9% to 99.99% over 18 months.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

Stanford University

Focus: Distributed Systems & Machine Learning | GPA: 3.9/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley

Graduated Summa Cum Laude | Dean’s List all semesters

Certifications & Achievements

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2023)
  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer (2022)
  • Published paper: “Scalable Real-time Recommendation at YouTube Scale” at ACM RecSys 2022
  • HackerRank: Top 0.5% globally (Algorithm & Data Structures)






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