Alexander Wolden
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Alexander Wolden

Alexander Wolden

Full Stack Engineer


Background


About

About

I am a fullstack problem solver with a breadth of experience in distributed applications. I enjoy using systems-thinking to work across the stack and across organizations to drive engineering excellence.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Lead Platform Engineer - Digital Product Creation

    Feb, 2018 - Present

    Lead engineer on a cross functional platform team with a heavy focus on AWS native solutions. Our work largely consisted of moving product developers away from legacy cad tools to cad tools that integrated with cloud native tools.

    • Lead development of greenfield UI for Nike's digital 3d material library (Vue/Vuex)

    • Implemented CI/CD standards around code delivery and code quality

    • Developed and maintained in-house asset management system

    • Built highly scalable 3D rendering infrastructure mainly utilizing AWS Step Functions and Batch

    • Heavy integration and usage of AWS infrastructure

    • Worked frequently with client teams to maintain technical excellence across the organization.

    • Created highly scalable data solutions through dynamodb data modeling

  • Senior Engineer - Nike Digital Commerce

    Mar, 2016 - Feb, 20181 year 11 months

    Nodejs and javascript full-stack developer on the Commerce in the Cloud: UX Foundation team, specializing in backend services, server deployment, application service integration, dev-ops, and universal javascript applications.

    • Major Tools and Technologies used: Netflix cloud tools (asgard, spinnaker, eureka, etc), Nodejs (express and restify), Universal Vuejs and React, GraphQL, Groovy, Jenkins, Git, Github/Stash, AWS (lambdas, ec2, dynamo, s3, kinesis, etc), and ElasticSearch.

    • Created and maintained universal javascript applications

    • Contributed major improvements and additions to dev-ops community pipeline focused around application building and server deployment. The community pipeline was used in projects across the Nike ecosystem.

    • Created and maintained node tools to replace Netflix AWS tooling (service discovery, circuit breaking, and service discovery)

    • Created and maintained node service blueprint tailored for the Nike application environment.

    • Utilized full stack knowledge to architect and lead a team to build a rapid prototyping platform written in VueJS and backed by Nodejs services. Platform allowed prototypers to create high fidelity prototypes (html/css/js) via a web based IDE or locally via a CLI tool. Prototypes created on the platform could be distributed and shared through organization via granular security.

  • Senior Developer

    Jan, 2013 - Mar, 20163 years 1 month

    At OCHIN, I was responsible for the creation and maintenance of a collection of web applications that served as a central data platform for healthcare data. Projects included a data visualization and report generation application, a central state-wide provider directory, and an application that was used for internal enterprise tools.

    • Main Technologies Used: NodeJS, AngularJS, Jade, Stylus, Protractor, Linux (Ubuntu/Red Hat), AWS, •Express, Grunt, Gulp, Git, Atlassian Bamboo/Stash/Jira/Crowd, Highcharts, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2012, •Piwik, Redis, PhantomJS, Mocha, Chai, Sequelize, Lodash/Underscore

    • Communication and coordination with stakeholders regarding feature development.

    • Creation and maintenance of Express based web-application.

    • Interfacing with customers regarding questions and technical bugs.

    • Development of devops strategy

    • Development of product security model.

    • In addition to the creation and maintenance of the NodeJS application, I also provided development and support for the original Sharepoint implementation. Technologies used include: Sharepoint, Powershell, Visual Studio 2012/2013, WCF Rest Services, C#, TFS, KendoUI, CIP Front-end Framework.

  • Contracted

    Jan, 2011 - Dec, 20121 year 11 months

    Web developer for a business association of machinery resellers. Designed, programmed and hosted web sites and applications. Provided web design and hosting for Classified Systems LLC. Provided and assisted in the customization of E-commerce solutions, database migration, and product re-branding.

    • Main Technologies Used: PHP, MySql, Zoho, Bootstrap, Javascript, Jquery, Bootstrap, Wordpress

    • Migration of medium-sized E-commerce site to new platform (database migration and implementation of new platform)

    • Creation of various CMS and static websites to serve business requirements

    • Integrated CRM (Zoho) into e-commerce platform

Skills

Skills

  • Javascript

    node

    vue

    react

  • Python

    python3

    python2

    tox

  • Data Management

    dynamo

    sql

    elasticsearch

    redis

    s3

  • Devops

    continuous delivery

    microservices

    immutable infrastructure

    serverless

    containers

    infrastructure as code

  • Leadership

    team culture

    mentoring

    technical architecture

    systems thinking

    communication

Education

Education

  • Psychology, Philosophy, and Organic Chemistry, Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin

    Jan, 2007 - Dec, 2011

    Summa Cum Laude