Summary
Alex Mancheno is a software engineer based in New York with nine years of hands-on experience building backend systems at companies including AWS and BlackRock. A Queens College CS graduate with a parallel BA in Philosophy from Binghamton, he combines strong engineering rigor with a knack for clear technical communication—evidenced by past roles teaching labs and tutoring. His work spans distributed systems and real-time data pipelines, with practical experience using Java, Kafka, Spring, Netty-style network frameworks, and Node.js for streaming and ETL tasks. At BlackRock he built a full-stack tool for investing and debugging Kafka topics, and at Numeraxial implemented large-scale market data ingestion and streaming solutions. Curious and self-driven, he seeks to deepen expertise in ASF technologies like Kafka, Cassandra, Spark, and systems-level networking.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, 3.85/4.00, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, 3.85/4.00 at Binghamton University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.83/4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.83/4.00 at Queens College
English, Spanish