Summary
Alexandra Avendano is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with five years of experience building reliable backend systems and data pipelines using Scala, Go, Java, Kafka and Cassandra. She has a proven track record delivering production features—retry logic for hardware telemetry, container migrations, and dashboards for operational visibility—while collaborating across international teams. Past roles include accelerating metadata ingestion and cleanup at Meta and designing availability and ingestion services for large-scale consumer apps, demonstrating a strong focus on data consistency and performance. Passionate about functional programming, clean code, and data flow, she also mentors peers and streamlines workflows to make complex tasks simpler. Based in Seattle, she brings a pragmatic blend of systems thinking and hands-on implementation that reduces operational friction and speeds project delivery.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer and Computer Science Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineer and Computer Science Computer Software Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Spanish, English