Alex Chavez
Lead Backend Engineer at Locker
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Chavez is a Lead Backend Engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable backend systems and data pipelines across big tech, entertainment, insurance, local government, and healthcare. He specializes in Java, Python, SQL, distributed system design, AWS, API development, and production ML/metrics pipelines, with hands-on experience monetizing device ecosystems and low-latency NLU services at Amazon. As a founding technical member at Locker, he’s driving backend architecture for a modern e-commerce experience, leveraging his history of shipping ad microservices and high-throughput intent classification systems. He combines strong data engineering chops—ETL, Spark, Airflow, Snowflake—with practical product focus from city-level analytics to enterprise dashboards. Based in Seattle, he adapts quickly to new languages and stacks and channels the discipline of 5+ years training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu into persistent, team-oriented problem solving.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
English
Github Skills (34)
visualization10
slack10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
dashboard9
analytics9
fastest9
metabase9
sql9
clojure9
data-analysis9
data-visualization9
business-intelligence8
yum8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RecipeMix/RecipeMix
May 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:41 commits in 5 days
lxchavez/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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