Alexander Reed

San Francisco CA - (201) 739-4327 - alexjreed7@gmail.com

I am a software engineer in Apple's Media Products division.

Experience

Apple Inc: Software Engineer

Cupertino, CA
  • Developing back-end services for Apple Media Products’ $46B revenue per year store
  • Built several horizontally scalable Dropwizard applications to handle over 1K RPS in both inter and intra network requests for Apple TV+, Apple Music, iOS Software Update, etc.
  • Engineered asynchronous solution to update over 400 million of Apple's highly sensitive billing info records using Kafka and custom tooling to reduce an average 200ms in buy flow latency
  • Led data design and implementation for migration of over 200 terabytes of billing info records from costly PCI zone
  • Mentored two junior engineers and one intern
August 2019 - Present

Accenture plc: Software and DevOps Engineering Intern

Chicago, IL
  • Worked full-time in agile environment alongside team of software and DevOps engineers
  • Designed and developed web application with AWS (Serverless Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB)
  • Constructed CI/CD DevOps pipeline using Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, and Spinnaker
  • Automated testing on existing applications using Selenium, Cucumber, and Jest
  • Built Node.js IoT MQTT message broker to allow constant data readings using publisher/subscriber protocol
  • Developed HTTP to MQTT message adapter to provide increased abstraction to broker implementation with AWS EC2
  • Added visual functionalities to existing front-end applications using Angular.js and React.js
June 2018 - August 2018

Integrated Vendor Risk Management Project

Nashville, TN
  • Worked ten hours per week with group of six students, two professors, and two Accenture blockchain specialists
  • Developed blockchain-based application aimed at better connecting buyers and sellers in the market through real-time exposure of assets
  • Used React.js and Node.js to build web application and Javasctipt to build on Ethereum API
January 2018 - May 2018

Medical Engineering and Design Lab: Research Assistant

Nashville, TN
  • Worked full-time over the summer; worked nine hours per week during school year with two other students
  • Published paper to SPIE on da Vinci stereoscope calibration to CT scan using virtual fiducials with team of four people
  • Designed and implemented a program to enable doctors to see where surgical tools of da Vinci Si Robotic-Assisted Surgery System are relative to a CT scan using C++ and MATLAB
  • Developed interface between stereoscope calibration algorithm and user input using event-driven programming in C++ and MATLAB
December 2016 - December 2017

Celgene Corporation: Internship

Summit, NJ
  • Worked full-time in Treasury Department
  • Organized and analyzed account data by running quantitative tests in Excel and Java and presented findings to superiors
  • Developed understanding of financial techniques and instruments needed to finance a large firm
June 2016 - August 2016

Education

Vanderbilt University

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science

Overall GPA: 3.634, Major GPA: 3.800

August 2015 - Present

Delbarton School

Morristown, NJ

GPA: 11.2

August 2011 - May 2015

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Interests

In my free time, I am either exercising or spending time with my friends. I try to either hike, run, or lift weights every day. I have also been attending hot yoga classes several times per week.

Over the summers, I have made an effort to travel as much as I can. I often visit family in Greece and Italy but have also been to Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Spain as well as Cuba and Mexico. Additionally, I am an avid fly fisherman and always try to fish, rain or shine!

I hope to pursue my passion for software engineering in the workforce and eventually teach a high school computer science class.

Awards & Projects

  • Vanderbilt Hackathon MLH Award Winner
    • Won Amazon-sponsored award for best use of Amazon Web Services; one of ten awards given to over five-hundred attendees
    • Designed and developed a money transfer service based off facial recognition with three other students
    • Utilized Node.js to access Kairos facial recognition software, MongoDB, Amazon Web Services, and Capitol One’s Nessie API
  • Budgeting Website
    • Built a budgeting website designed to help small organizations manage their money
    • Met with ten organizations around campus and recently started implementation of site using Node.js
    • Faced legal complications as product was too similar to something already on the market and had to stop production
  • Fly Box
    • Built a web application with React.js frontend and AWS (Serverless Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Cognito) backend
    • Designed to allow fisherman to document and share fishing trips with coordinate and descriptive data
    • Integrating machine learning components into application to provide customer product recommendations
  • Dean's List
    • Achieve over 3.5 GPA
  • Vandy Hacks
    • On board of student-run organization responsible for organizing annual hackathon at Vanderbilt
  • Vandy Apps
    • Participate in weekly discussions regarding programming techniques and technology news
  • Vanderbilt Refridge-A-Dore Executive
    • Responsible for distributing over six hundred refrigerators with team of five other students
  • Vanderbilt University Investment Club
    • Participate in weekly discussions regarding current events in finance