Summary
Alden Page is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building scalable backend systems across finance, adtech, and open-source civic projects. He currently focuses on search infrastructure and discovery, having built an open-source search engine and a large-scale polite image crawler that processed hundreds of millions of images. At Creative Commons he designed fast indexing, zero-downtime deployments, and cost-optimized self-hosted search backends that dramatically reduced build time and AWS spend. His earlier work includes real-time intraday risk systems at Deutsche Bank and ad ROI and computer vision pipelines in sports analytics, giving him strong domain breadth from low-latency finance to batch-heavy media systems. Alden is an active open-source contributor with notable involvement in privacy-focused projects like Tor, reflecting a long-standing interest in secure, public-serving technology. He pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and hiring experience, often leading operational and architecture changes that improve stability and cost-efficiency.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science major Economics minor, Computer Science major Economics minor at Allegheny College
English