Summary
Alex Palacios is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems, software architecture, and SQL Server-centered data solutions. Based in Spokane, he has driven finance and business applications, global ETL pipelines, and data warehouse initiatives while mentoring teams and owning CI/CD and DevOps practices. Technically fluent across C#/.NET (Core and Framework), Python, Azure/AWS, Docker/Kubernetes, and search/datastore technologies like Redis and Elasticsearch, he regularly contributes to architecture reviews and sustaining work. His background includes hands-on systems administration and a Microsoft certification in querying SQL Server, reflecting deep operational knowledge beyond coding. Alex is comfortable balancing long-term architectural decisions with day-to-day bug fixes and automation, which makes him a dependable bridge between engineering and business stakeholders. He brings a practical, data-focused mindset rooted in industrial engineering training and decades of incremental platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Industrial and Systems Engineering at Universidad del Norte de México
English