Josue Alexander
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJosue Alexander is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 13 years of experience designing and shipping scalable backend and platform systems. He specializes in distributed systems and workflow orchestration, having driven Cadence adoption at Uber and built high-throughput backend services at DoorDash using Kotlin, Python, Kafka, CRDB and Kubernetes. Josue blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—he served as Interim Head of Engineering at Jobscan and cofounded a healthcare startup—so he is comfortable owning architecture, mentoring teams, and shaping roadmaps. He favors pragmatic system design, strong code quality, and observability for fault-tolerant workflows processing billions of events monthly. Currently seeking backend, platform, or systems architecture roles where he can tackle complex scale challenges and improve developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Computer Technology, High School Diploma, Computer Technology at SIATech High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Southwestern Community College DistrictBusiness Administration and Management, General, Business Administration and Management, General at Lazaro Cardenas
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (177)
postgresql10
authentication10
stylus10
vuejs210
business-logic10
ecosystem10
cadence10
scale10
jwt10
golang10
scalable10
logic10
task-management10
web-token10
email-forwarding10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ibarrajo/cadence-docs
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 115 pushes, 27 branches in 1 year
ibarrajo/cadence
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
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