Alex Morais
Lead Software Engineer at Recentive Analytics
Springfield, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Morais is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web service APIs and microservices, currently leading engineering at Recentive Analytics from Springfield, Missouri. He brings strong systems and applied-research sensibilities, blending expertise in Python, Go, JavaScript, C/C++ and Java with hands-on work in Kubernetes, DBaaS, and migrations that minimize user impact. His background spans computer graphics and ray tracing to backend platform engineering, giving him a rare combination of low-level performance tuning and high-level service architecture. At companies like ObjectRocket and MapMyFitness he shipped resilient APIs, migrated large datasets, and integrated device ecosystems under production constraints. Known for designing novel solutions to thorny production problems, he also leverages academic training in MS/BS Computer Science to bridge research ideas and practical implementations. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions that balance operational reliability with technical innovation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Mississippi State University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
659reputation
2.2mreached
16answers
3questions
Github Skills (82)
client-library10
api9
google-cloud-run9
google-cloud-platform9
python9
gcp9
google-cloud9
python-client9
appengine9
google-api9
django8
twitch-api8
rest8
api-client8
wrapper8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
perplexistential/twitch-creamery
Feb 2022 - Jun 2023
a twitch-bot for the homies and I to entertain and amuse
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
ThatsAMorais/morais-farmers-market
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 1 branch in 10 days
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