Alex Knowlton
Software Engineer at Netflix
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Knowlton is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building full‑stack, cloud-native systems for large-scale products, currently contributing at Netflix after multi‑year roles across Amazon, AWS, and Prime Video. He holds both a BS and MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins and has hands-on expertise designing RESTful APIs, serverless architectures, and large email processing systems that handled hundreds of millions of messages weekly. Comfortable across front-end frameworks (React, Angular/Ionic) and back-end stacks (Java, Node.js, C#), he also applies machine learning pragmatically to product problems. Notably, his early intern projects moved to production and delivered measurable cost savings, reflecting a focus on shipping impactful, scalable solutions. Based in Washington, D.C., Alex blends product-minded engineering with a track record of rapid prototyping and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityHigh School, High School at Moorestown Friends School
English
Stackoverflow
33reputation
409reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (14)
clojure6
javascript6
phrase6
clojurescript6
nlp3
flying3
discord-js3
discord-bot3
discord2
nodejs2
machine-learning2
virtual-reality1
hololens1
unity3d1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlexKnowlton313/AlexKnowlton313.github.io
Jan 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
AlexKnowlton313/Serb-Bot
Jan 2018 - Oct 2019
A general purpose Discord bot written in discord.js -- a node.js module.
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
discord-jsdiscorddiscordjsbotnode-js
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