Alex K
Engineering Manager at AppFolio, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex K is an engineering manager based in California with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating high-availability systems across startups and enterprise products. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver large-scale notification platforms, calendar/task integrations, and security microservices that handled tens of millions of messages with 99.9% uptime. His background spans front-end rewrites used by millions, revenue-driving web products, and embedded/automation work from his early engineering roles, giving him a full-stack perspective. He combines product-minded delivery—launching features that reached 97K monthly users and saved companies hundreds of thousands annually—with a practical focus on reliability and cost reduction. A former Marine sergeant, he brings disciplined leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, plus experience founding a SaaS startup serving paid customers worldwide. He holds a BS and MS in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University and consistently turns complex requirements into operational, testable systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Computer Engineering and Networking Systems, M.S. Computer Engineering and Networking Systems at San José State University
Russian, Hebrew, English
Github Skills (107)
google-cloud-speech10
async9
javascript9
rest9
audio9
js9
swagger9
visualizations9
speech9
rest-api9
visualization9
pkgcloud9
parsing9
react9
electron9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
akras14/speech-to-text
Jan 2018 - Mar 2020
Example transcribing audio file (speech) to text with Google Cloud Speech API and Python
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
audiogoogle-cloud-speechpythonspeech
akras14/alexkras.com
Nov 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:109 commits, 105 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 11 months
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