Alex Blackwell is a backend-focused software developer with 8 years of experience building high-scale systems for Demonware’s Call of Duty marketplace, where he designs and ships features that impact millions of players. He’s driven measurable performance wins—overhauling cache invalidation to cut DB memory use by 73% and speeding APIs up to 50%—and built tooling used to grant items and update inventories across 95+ million players. Comfortable bridging data and engineering, Alex led updates to enable ML-based store personalization and has hands-on experience comparing time-series models from his Borealis AI work. Based in Vancouver with a 3.9 CS degree from Simon Fraser University, he combines deep systems optimization skills with practical product impact—think of him as the engineer who quietly delivers large-scale player-facing experiences.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, 3.9 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, 3.9 GPA at Simon Fraser University
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Alex Blackwell - Software Developer (SDE III) at Demonware