Alexander Moore
Staff Software Engineer at Affirm
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Moore is a Staff Software Engineer with 19 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver resilient, scalable cloud and distributed systems. He spent eight years as a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle contributing to OCI reliability, digital media, and object storage services, and now applies that expertise at Affirm. His background spans low-level distributed databases (Riak), client libraries across many languages, cloud services, and web applications—often shipping critical reliability and incident automation features. He has led international teams through rapid release cadences (111 client releases in 22 months at Basho) and remains an active practitioner who contributes integration tests and robust error handling to open-source projects like the riak-java-client. Passionate about new paradigms, he holds coursework certificates in programming paradigms and deep learning, blending practical production engineering with continuous learning. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he focuses on delivering high-quality, customer-focused systems that scale.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (5)
javas10
java10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
basho/riak-java-client
Dec 2013 - Feb 2017
The Riak client for Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 673 commits, 176 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the Riak Java client, primarily by adding functionality for sorting and filtering query results in the `SecondaryIndexQueryOperation` class, as well as implementing integration tests to verify the new functionality. They also worked on refining error handling and clarifying existing codebase functionality.
javariak
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