Alex Rivera

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

I build fast, accessible products — from design systems to distributed backends. Five years shipping features at scale for millions of users.

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2+ Roles
3+ Projects
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Experience

01
Vercel
2022 – Present
San Francisco, CA
Senior Software Engineer
  • Led the rebuild of the deployments dashboard, reducing p95 load time by 68%
  • Shipped Edge Config from zero to 10,000+ customers in 3 months
  • Mentored 4 engineers and ran weekly architecture reviews across 2 time zones
Next.jsTypeScriptEdge RuntimeGo
Stripe
2020 – 2022
Remote
Software Engineer II
  • Built the Stripe Radar rules engine UI used by 250,000+ merchants globally
  • Reduced fraud false-positive rate by 23% through improved ML signal features
  • Designed the webhooks configuration system with a zero-downtime migration
RubyReactKafkaPostgreSQL

Projects

02
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OpenBoard

Real-time collaborative whiteboard built on CRDTs. 2,000+ GitHub stars, featured on Hacker News front page.

RustWebSocketsReactYjs
02

Luma CLI

Developer tool for managing multi-environment deployments with zero config. Adopted by 3 YC-backed companies.

TypeScriptNode.jsCLI
03

Carta Design System

Accessible component library with 60+ components. Cut design-to-code time by 40% across 3 product teams.

ReactStorybookRadix UITailwind

Skills

03
Languages
TypeScript·Rust·Python·Go·Ruby
Frontend
React·Next.js·Tailwind CSS·Radix UI·Framer Motion
Backend & Infra
Node.js·PostgreSQL·Redis·Kafka·Docker·AWS

Education

04
UC Berkeley
2016 – 2020
B.S. Computer Science
GPA 3.9 · Dean's List · Teaching Assistant for CS61B
05 / Contact

Let's create something
together.

alex@alexrivera.dev GitHub ↗ LinkedIn ↗