Alex Mechler is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of hands-on experience building backend systems, full-stack products, and robotics-adjacent software. He has driven mission-critical features at scale—designing task distribution and lead-matching systems that handle thousands of monthly items and architecting in-house telemetry like an NPS survey to proactively flag churn. Comfortable across PHP, React, C++, and SQLite, he’s shipped daily to production, fixed high-impact infrastructure issues (including a 10x concurrent-connection improvement), and built real-time cross-platform collaboration tools. His background includes patented work in backup/restore metadata handling and practical automation that saved teams hours, reflecting a blend of systems-level thinking and product focus. At RoadRunner he continues to apply that mix of reliability engineering and product-minded implementation while drawing on a foundation in computer software engineering from RIT.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
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