Alex Koutmos

CEO

Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States11 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Co-Founder & CTO of a successful SaaS company.
  • Expert in full-stack development with diverse tech stack.
  • Proven track record in microservices and DevOps practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Engineer with expertise in SaaS and microservices architecture.

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Skills

Core Skills

CtoFull-stack DevelopmentMonitoring ToolsBackend DevelopmentApi DevelopmentMicroservicesTestingFrontend DevelopmentCi/cdPerformance TestingSoftware Development

Other Skills

ElixirPrometheusGrafanaGraphQLAbsintheKubernetesNodeJSGoVue.jsAngularJenkinsProtractorJSCypressJSPHPLaravel

About

I am a full stack engineer with experience working with languages/tools such as Elixir, Phoenix, Javascript, VueJS, Angular, NodeJS, Go, Python, Flask, PHP, Laravel. When it is time to wear the DevOps hat, I reach for tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitLab CI.

Experience

11 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Whoosh, inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2021Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Set up application monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
  • Developed GraphQL backend
  • Developed integrations with 3rd party APIs and vendors

Boulevard

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2020Mar 2021 · 5 mos

  • Developed the Absinthe GraphQL API for 3rd party integrations
  • Created developer documentation to support integration use-cases

Eaglemms

Co-Founder & CTO

Jun 2020Present · 5 yrs 11 mos · Houston, Texas, United States · Remote

  • Our fully automated Material Management System allows your auto collision center to seamlessly track and invoice all repair material costs. With the rising cost of materials and consumables, it's time to invoice everything that you use and start making money instead of losing money!
CTOElixirFull-Stack Development

Bridge connector

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2019Sep 2020 · 11 mos · Nashville Metropolitan Area

  • Re-architecting EHR integrations workflow engine and establishing the foundation for Elixir microservices.
  • Introduced Prometheus & Grafana to the Engineering org and created dashboards for captured metrics.
  • Was responsible with writing Helm Charts for Elixir microservices for deployment to Kubernetes.

Diameter health

Engineering Manager

Mar 2019Oct 2019 · 7 mos · Greater Hartford

  • Instrumented NodeJS backend to expose metrics to Prometheus and created Grafana dashboards for support teams.
  • Created data generation and stress test applications in Elixir to exercise API and determine system limits.

Telnyx

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2018Mar 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Chicago Area

  • Wrote Elixir and Go microservices to perform call control flow actions. Created customer facing developer tools to trace and debug call control sessions. Created Elixir libraries to standardize customer facing API messaging.
  • Architected and led the development effort to implement the new wireless SIM card product offering.
  • Created several internal admin dashboard tools using Vue.js and Element-UI.

Presencelearning

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2017Feb 2018 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Used Webpack Bundle Analyzer and refactored Angular SPA to use AOT and shrunk build by 50%.
  • Set up and configured Jenkins Pipeline to run CI/CD tasks in parallel to reduce integration time and ensure high level of code quality through the use of linters, unit tests, E2E tests.
  • Wrote and maintained legacy ProtractorJS tests and created new tests in CypressJS. Created utilities to generate test data for E2E tests and to exercise both GraphQL and REST backends.

Zonar systems

2 roles

Software Development Engineer III

Mar 2016Mar 2017 · 1 yr · Seattle

  • Led the effort to migrate our team’s existing application from a legacy PHP+Zend stack, to a PHP+Laravel stack. Leveraged tools and libraries such as Redis, AngularJS, AngularJS Material, and Grunt.
  • Created uniform Linux development environments for my team through the use of Vagrant.
  • Used tools like ApacheBench, Phantomas, and Lighthouse to load/performance test REST APIs and web apps. Utilizing these tools, I was able to root-cause and fix bottle necks across the stack.
  • Set up an E2E testing solution utilizing ProtractorJS and Jasmine. Setup headless Firefox and Chrome boxes with Xvfb to run automated E2E tests and validate builds.

Software Development Engineer II

Nov 2014Feb 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Seattle

  • Created the frontend+build process for a web app and integrated with an existing Python API. Frontend was created with AngularJS and Bootstrap 3.
  • Created new reports for customers, fixed bugs and optimized legacy reports, and created internal tools to make legacy codebase more maintainable and more reliable.

Amazon

Software Development Engineer

Apr 2013Oct 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Seattle

  • Developed frontend and backend code to support Amazon Student launch in Germany.
  • Created Java Spring services to support Amazon Student retail website features.
  • Developed Android application for use by employees in specialized Amazon fulfillment centers.
  • Developed automated browser regression tests with Selenium+Cucumber+PhantomJS.

Manning & napier

Software Engineer

Mar 2012Sep 2012 · 6 mos · Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area

  • Created ETL jobs to migrate trade transaction database to a new platform.
  • Created internal tools written in C # for management of trade information and trade authorizations.

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2012Jan 2015

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor's degree — Medical Informatics Computer Science Track

Jan 2006Jan 2011

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