Summary
Alexis Goodfellow is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable backend systems and SRE practices, currently contributing to member-facing and operational features at evermore. They helped harden internet privacy, scaled Scratch’s backend to handle a trillion requests a year, and saved a furniture retailer roughly $15M annually through practical engineering improvements. Comfortable across Python, distributed systems, and operational tooling, Alexis focuses on simplicity, maintainability, and reducing accidental complexity rather than chasing hype. They led migrations to containerized deployments and shipped numerous well-tested internal libraries that improved developer velocity and reliability at Wayfair. A former TA in information security and programming languages, Alexis pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong security mindset and hands-on mentoring experience. Based in Savannah, GA, they prefer clear, durable solutions over Rube-Goldberg engineering and bring a keen eye for preventing problems before they hit production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Tufts University
English, French, Russian