Alexander Hicks
Senior Software Development Engineer at Remitly
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlexander Hicks is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with nine years building data-intensive, distributed systems primarily on AWS. He specializes in Java, Scala, and Kotlin to design and optimize ETL pipelines and large-scale streaming/batch workloads using Spark, EMR, SQS, and DynamoDB. Having progressed through multiple SDE roles at AWS and Remitly, he combines production-grade system design with hands-on coding and a track record of mentoring junior engineers. Alexander’s background spans embedded and IoT systems to cloud-native data platforms, giving him an uncommon end-to-end perspective on data lifecycle and operational reliability. He’s particularly adept at translating complex data requirements into scalable architectures that reduce operational toil and improve throughput.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Study Abroad Informatics, Study Abroad Informatics at The University of EdinburghFront Range Community CollegeBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Trinity University
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (16)
mathematics10
in-progress10
computer-algebra-system9
theorem-proving9
computer-algebra8
semantics8
math7
blockchain5
ethereum5
virtual-machine5
solidity5
machine-learning5
smart-contracts5
evm3
llm-inference2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexanderlhicks/VAMS
May 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:1 release, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
alexanderlhicks/CryptoPals-Rust
Aug 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.