Alex Wissmann
Senior Software Engineer at GRAIL, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wissmann is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems and backend services at companies ranging from startups to large tech firms. He has shipped production data pipelines and pricing infrastructure in Python and Spark at Opendoor, built batch processing and microservices at Twitter, and currently contributes to engineering efforts at GRAIL. Equally comfortable in data platform and product-focused roles, he has a track record of cost-saving and efficiency improvements—once identifying $15k/month in removable S3 data during an internship. Alex combines a dual academic background in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with practical experience across analytics, distributed systems, and product engineering. Colleagues would note his ability to translate business questions into scalable data solutions and his penchant for pragmatic optimizations that quietly improve operating metrics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics - The Wharton School, Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics - The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (57)
javascript10
gameplay10
world-of-warcraft10
analyzer10
typescript10
lua10
react10
testing9
react-native9
reproducible-science9
ios9
cross-platform9
unit-testing9
aws9
android9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awiss/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - May 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 years 9 months
awiss/WoWAnalyzer
May 2023 - Sep 2024
WoWAnalyzer is a tool to help you analyze and improve your World of Warcraft raiding performance through various relevant metrics and gameplay suggestions.
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
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