Alex Schillinger
Principal Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Schillinger is a Principal Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, highly available e-commerce systems, currently shaping Target’s Digital Cart, Checkout, and Payments experiences. He blends full-stack expertise with cloud and distributed-systems chops developed across Best Buy and research work in mobile/cloud middleware, with a particular interest in social, cloud, and mobile computing. Known for curiosity-driven problem solving, he focuses on scalable, production-grade solutions that improve real-world user experiences. Alex’s background spans platform engineering, DevOps, and API/feature delivery—leveraging technologies from containers and Kubernetes to Java/Node and serverless—to drive reliability and velocity at scale. He also brings academic research experience in mobile caching and collaborative systems, informing pragmatic choices for latency-sensitive features.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
react5
javascript4
code-editor4
ace4
slack2
ace-editor2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MobileMoodle/MobileMoodleApp
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 19 days
ACSchil/AlgsAndDataStructs
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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