Alex Lau

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States18 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Author of Amazon #1 Best Seller 'Keep Calm and Code On'.
  • Over 15 years of software development experience.
  • Led full stack development for high-quality applications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Senior Software Engineer with extensive full-stack development experience.

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Skills

Other Skills

Ruby on RailsSASSJavaScriptASP.NETVB.NETSQLMicrosoft SQL ServerOracle SQLPostgreSQLSAPABAPHTMLGitGithubCSS

About

Dad. Author of the Amazon #1 Best Seller "Keep Calm and Code On." Software developer of over 15 years. Meme curator. Slay the Spire fanboy.

Experience

18 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Brilliant.org

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Remote

Mystery.org

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2020Jan 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Rabbet

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 2017Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

  • Lead a product team consisting of QA, design, and engineering members to ensure timely delivery of a high quality, metrics driven product.
  • Full stack development for a greenfield application which uses complex development patterns such as event sourcing.
  • Foster talent on the team by being a recruiting manager and mentor to junior developers.

Youearnedit

Senior Developer

May 2016Oct 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Collaborated directly with product and design teams to lead a team of developers in major project initiatives.
  • Full stack development with a React front end and RoR back end. Helped overhaul and migrate the entire application's views from ERB to React.
  • Regularly documented and presented best practices to the engineering team.
  • Promoted from Senior Developer to Team Lead to Engineering Manager.

Dasheroo

Sr. Platform Engineer

Jun 2015May 2016 · 11 mos

  • Learned Salesforce’s Lightning framework to create and deploy an app on the Salesforce App Exchange.
  • Diagnosed bottlenecks and increased performance for both the company’s core business application.

Get satisfaction

Rails Developer

Dec 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Architected customer facing features such as an advanced search page on a platform visited by millions of users each month.
  • Innovated during hackathon days and regularly presented projects to the entire company. Oversaw feature deployment from concept to production afterward.
  • Learned D3.js to create advanced data visualizations.

Sprinklr

Software Developer

Dec 2013Jun 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • See the experience listed under "Get Satisfaction" - which was acquired by Sprinklr in 2015.

Speakerpedia

Rails Developer

Jan 2013Sep 2013 · 8 mos

  • Researched, tested, and developed enhancements for speakerpedia.com.
  • Collaborated with talent agents to oversee features and bug fixes for a custom CRM on a daily basis.

University of minnesota

Teaching Assistant

Sep 2007Dec 2007 · 3 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Taught concepts of computer programming in an introductory C++ class.

General mills

Software Applications Analyst

May 2007Nov 2012 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Desktop application development for a variety of projects throughout their entire project lifecycles using .NET and SAP technologies.
  • Optimized critical SAP supply chain automations.
  • Led ABAP training sessions as one of the few developers with both .NET and SAP experience.
  • After interning for 2 summers, promoted twice within 3 years to Applications Analyst.

Education

University of Minnesota

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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