Alex Levinson
Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead at Tock
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Levinson is a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building backend-focused full-stack systems using Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, GraphQL and cloud-native microservices. Based in Chicago, he has driven large-scale projects at Tock and Expedia Group, moving services out of monoliths, designing migration strategies, and owning production incident response as an SRE on-call. He combines hands-on coding with mentoring and curriculum-building—founding a monthly "Level Up" course—and has led small teams from junior pairings to mature engineering groups. Comfortable across the stack, Alex leverages Terraform, Kubernetes, Temporal, and multiple integration patterns (gRPC, REST, Protobuf) to deliver resilient platforms and third-party payments and communications integrations. Colleagues rely on him to take vague requirements and turn them into testable, maintainable systems, a skill honed by frequent migrations and diverse frontend/backend toolchains. He pairs pragmatic engineering with a bias for automation and observability, often stepping into unfamiliar stacks to unblock teams and ship production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science Engineering, 3.5, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science Engineering, 3.5 at University of MichiganHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Cincinnati Country Day SchoolSummer Classes, 3.88, Summer Classes, 3.88 at Stanford University
Github Skills (6)
google-voice8
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shell3
electron1
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react1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
levinsonalex/bio
Mar 2015 - Aug 2022
Contributions:62 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 5 months
goodingr/494Final
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:45 pushes in 1 month
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