Alex Weller
Principal Engineer at KIXEYE
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Weller is a Principal Engineer and technical leader with over a decade of experience building massively scalable backend systems for real-time multiplayer games and platforms. A true generalist based in San Francisco, he has architected services across the full stack—from hardware and networking to SDKs and user interfaces—and helped found and scale game backends that supported hundreds of thousands of concurrent players and tens of millions of installs. As a founding engineer at Casual Collective and a longtime leader at KIXEYE, Alex designed core services (chat, payments, entitlements, messaging) and production platforms that power hits like Backyard Monsters, Battle Pirates and War Commander. He specializes in building multi-tenant, high-throughput distributed systems (custom XMPP servers, Node.js/MongoDB APIs, PHP/Scala/Java backends) and in operationalizing best practices across studios. Known for shipping durable, low-maintenance systems, he pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring and cross-team knowledge sharing to amplify impact across organizations.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Bulmershe School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (46)
braze9
sdk9
unity3d9
swagger-node9
nodejs8
marketing-automation8
json7
javascript7
ios7
rest7
android7
sql7
rest-api7
database6
orm6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Sencerd/appboy-unity-sdk
Mar 2018 - Apr 2020
Public repo for the Braze Unity SDK
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
public-repobrazesdkunity-sdkunity
Sencerd/waterline-issue-repro
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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