Alex Gu
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gu is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS with a decade of experience building reliable distributed systems, primarily on the AWS X-Ray team. He brings deep practical knowledge of tracing, SDK development, and cross-language integrations from contributions that span Go, Java, and Ruby. A double major in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Rutgers, Alex progressed from impactful internships to shipping production features at scale. He has a track record of solving low-level engineering challenges—from VM tooling and backup plugins to computer vision experiments—showing a curiosity for both systems and applied research. Based in Seattle, he blends hands-on coding with product-focused engineering to improve observability for large-scale services.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Engineering Magnet School, High School Diploma, Engineering Magnet School at High Technology High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Double Major in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science (CS), Bachelor of Science - BS, Double Major in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science (CS) at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
opentelemetry8
opentelemetry-collector7
spring3
mud3
java2
lua2
ai1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlexGu100/HackPrincetonF17
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Steel-Beams/HackPrinceton
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 day
princeton
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