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// full-stack engineer

Alex Rivera

I am a full-stack engineer with 8 years building products end to end.

Based in Berlin. Available for select freelance and contract work.

currentlydeveloper tooling + observability
based inBerlin, Germany
timezoneCET (UTC+1)
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years building
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projects shipped
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selected projects

Things I've built

04 shipped
[01]

Ledger Sync

Infrastructure

Real-time double-entry accounting engine handling 2M+ txns/day.

GoPostgresgRPC
[02]

Pixel Forge

Tools

WebGL image editor with a plugin SDK and collaborative canvas.

TypeScriptWebGLReact
[03]

Drift API Gateway

Infrastructure

Low-latency edge gateway with auth, rate-limiting, and tracing.

RustKubernetes
[04]

Quill CMS

Open Source

Headless CMS with a Git-backed content layer and live preview.

NodeNext.jsSQLite
experience

Where I've worked

  • 2024 — present

    Senior Software Engineer

    Independent

    Building developer tools and platform infrastructure for early-stage teams. Recent: design systems, observability pipelines, on-prem migrations.

  • 2021 — 2024

    Software Engineer

    Previous role

    Shipped core product features across the stack — frontend, services, and the deploy pipeline.

  • 2019 — 2021

    Engineer (early career)

    First job

    Learned the trade. Wrote a lot of CRUD. Got better.

skills

Technical stack

Languages

TypeScriptPythonGoSQL

Frameworks

Next.js · ReactNode · ExpressFastAPI

Infrastructure

AWS · GCPDocker · KubernetesTerraform

Databases

Postgres · MySQLRedisClickHouse
get in touch

Want to work together?

The best way to reach me is email. I respond within 24 hours.

alex@example.com
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