Alex Gaesser
Senior Software Engineer at Parable
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Gaesser is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 8 years of experience building scalable backend platforms and APIs for startups and enterprise customers. He specializes in Go, distributed systems, and API design, and has a strong focus on observability, testing, and operational excellence that has measurably reduced incident response and release friction. At Kong and Segment he designed OpenAPI-driven public APIs, consolidated cross-service authorization libraries, and improved compatibility and deployment processes for high-volume systems. He’s delivered shared libraries and engineering standards that power services handling hundreds of thousands of daily requests and simplify upgrades across releases. Comfortable across cloud-native tooling and CI/CD, he also has hands-on experience building SDKs, Terraform integrations, and serverless map-reduce features. Beyond coding, he’s driven cross-functional planning, documentation, and on-call practices that turn complex requirements into auditable, reliable systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s of Science Computer Science, Bachelor’s of Science Computer Science at San Francisco State University
English
Github Skills (34)
azure-functions10
aws-lambda10
google-cloud-functions10
terraform-provider10
aws-dynamodb10
terraform10
sam10
aws-apigateway10
serverless-applications10
iot10
aws-sam10
mobile-web10
sdk10
aws10
serverless-framework10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexindeed/terraform-provider-spotinst
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Terraform spotinst provider
Contributions:46 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
terraform-providerspotinstproviderterraform
alexindeed/spotinst-sdk-go
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Spotinst SDK for the Go programming language
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
golangspotinstprogramming-languagesdk
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