Alex Blackwell
Software Developer (SDE III) at Demonware
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex 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.
9 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
English
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Github Skills (66)
pytesseract10
prediction10
lstm-neural-networks10
command-line-utility10
paste9
econometrics9
statistics9
generalized-linear-models9
regression-models9
lstm9
python9
cookiecutter9
sarimax9
forecast9
artificial-neural-networks9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Alex0Blackwell/python-projects
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:74 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
Alex0Blackwell/c-cpp-DSA
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
C and C++ data structures and algorithms completed outside of my university classes
Contributions:153 commits, 3 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 1 month
cppdata-structuredata-structures
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