Alex Levy
Staff Software Engineer at Figma
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Levy is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance consumer and financial systems, currently driving engineering at Tidal within Block. He has a strong full-stack background in C#, .NET Core, JavaScript/React, TypeScript and Java, delivering scalable features for millions of users and mission-critical trading and payments pipelines. Alex has repeatedly improved backend efficiency—most notably reworking a results-download mechanism with SignalR to cut memory overhead by orders of magnitude—and has shipped landlord services and fintech products through acquisition-led work. Comfortable across product lifecycle from ideation to commercial analysis, he combines TDD and systems-minded engineering to balance reliability and rapid delivery. Based in the United States and educated in Computer Science at the University of Southampton, he brings both enterprise-grade rigor and startup agility to complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. (Hons) Computer Science, BSc. (Hons) Computer Science at University of Southampton
Github Skills (78)
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react-native10
expo10
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frontend10
react10
d3-geo9
linting9
web-framework9
eslint9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexlukelevy/alexlukelevy.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 PRs, 34 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 5 months
alexlukelevy/ticker-tape
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year
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