Alex Leung
Staff Software Engineer at Flexport
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Leung is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience designing scalable, low-debt systems and automations across startups and large platforms. He has led cross-company consolidation efforts and GraphQL federation projects at Flexport, unified microfrontends and API gateways, and drove a migration from Algolia to OpenSearch that saved $500k annually. Alex brings a pragmatic full‑stack background from Amazon, Hulu, and early startups—spanning backend microservices, frontend migrations to TypeScript/Next.js, and infrastructure automation. He favors upfront investment in automation and standards to avoid technical debt, and has a knack for turning denormalized business logic into simple, testable backend-driven UIs. Outside work he blends entrepreneurial thinking with outspoken technical convictions (from transhumanist to Solana maximalist), which surfaces as rigorous, principled engineering and a preference for practical, systemic change.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Washington
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Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
bundler10
transpiler10
serverless10
jsx10
fastify10
ledger10
api10
aes-gcm10
json10
child-process10
nodejs10
cordova10
css10
styled-components10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ozyman42/auto-cardanode
Jul 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
skoville/webpack-hot-module-replacement
Jun 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:47 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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