Alex Wilk
Staff Software Engineer at Coinbase
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wilk is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure cloud services and shipping high-impact features at AWS and Coinbase. He led ML/GenAI initiatives at Amazon QuickSight while expanding his scope from a single team to advising 40 engineers across five teams, combining hands-on coding with broad technical strategy. Notable operational work includes creating an internal API breaking-change detection tool adopted by 5,000+ teams that prevented dozens of weekly breakages, and driving hundreds of designs, reviews, and operational improvements. An Amazon Bar Raiser and AWS Security Guardian, he brings rigorous standards for scalability, security, and reliability to fast-moving projects. He’s an automation and continuous delivery enthusiast, an active open-source contributor, and a practical mentor who scales impact through tools and process as much as code.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of FreiburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Automatics and Robotics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Automatics and Robotics at AGH University of Science and Technology in Cracow
Polish, English, German
Github Skills (23)
unit-testing10
testing10
java10
mocks10
mocking10
powermock10
unit-test10
mockito10
test-automation10
testability9
javafx6
controlled5
selenium-java4
voice3
web-automation3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wwilk/shipkit-demo
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:70 PRs, 86 pushes, 38 branches in 19 days
wwilk/scalable-chat-client
Dec 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 18 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
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