Alex Cordeiro
VP Engineering at Stellar Development Foundation
California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Cordeiro is a seasoned VP of Engineering with 13 years of experience building scalable web platforms and leading teams from startup to enterprise scale. A former co-founder and COO of Cheesecake Labs, he grew a small shop into a 50-person, award-winning engineering organization and now leads product and engineering at the Stellar Development Foundation. Hands-on across the stack, Alex has contributed to Stellar’s Go monorepo—building market-data ingestion, TOML validation, and CLI tooling—and focuses on practical, production-grade systems that handle millions of users. He blends deep technical expertise in backend systems with operational leadership and a T-shaped skill set that spans product, people, and architecture. Based in California with engineering roots in automation and research, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a track record of turning complex requirements into resilient, data-driven solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Control and Automation, Engineer's degree Control and Automation at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBachelor's Degree Automatisierungstechnik, Bachelor's Degree Automatisierungstechnik at RWTH Aachen University
English, Portuguese, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
postgresql10
apidoc10
go10
api10
horizon9
blockchain9
data-processing9
database-design9
cryptocurrency9
rest-api8
graphql8
wordpress-graphql8
toml8
wpgraphql8
api-rest8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
stellar/go
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
Stellar's public monorepo of go code
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 14 reviews, 48 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of the services/ticker component within the Stellar go code monorepo, focusing on fetching and processing asset data from the Horizon API. Their work involved creating functions to retrieve, filter, and validate asset information, including TOML data validation and orderbook data. The user also integrated database storage for scraped assets, implemented trade ingestion processes, and developed a CLI for market data generation.
horizongolangmonorepoblockchainstellar
accordeiro/stellar-anchor-server
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:44 commits, 52 pushes, 45 branches in 3 months
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