Alexander Wolden
Technical Engineering Manager at Block
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Wolden is a Technical Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver distributed, full-stack applications across finance and consumer platforms. Currently at Block after progressing from Senior Software Engineer there, he previously led platform engineering for Nike’s Digital Product Creation, bringing a strong systems-thinking approach to cross-team collaboration and operational excellence. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he blends hands-on coding with people leadership to drive scalable architectures and reliable delivery. A multidisciplinary thinker with a BS spanning psychology, philosophy, and organic chemistry, he leverages unusual cross-domain perspective to solve technical and organizational complexity. His GitHub persona—self-described as "Winging it"—hints at pragmatic experimentation and a willingness to iterate rapidly in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Psychology Philosophy Organic Chemistry, Bachelor of Science Psychology Philosophy Organic Chemistry at University of Wisconsin
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Github Skills (165)
health-check10
azure-functions10
mobile-web10
fallback10
sticky-session10
fault-tolerance10
serverless10
hystrix-dashboard10
eureka-js-client10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
hystrix10
netflix10
aws-lambda10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awolden/brakes
Apr 2016 - Jan 2021
Hystrix compliant Node.js Circuit Breaker Library
Contributions:21 releases, 1 review, 137 commits in 4 years 10 months
circuit-breakerhystrixnode-jscompliantcircuit-breaker-library
awolden/module-importer
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 26 days
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