Product Obsessed Software Engineer
I'm a developer in Los Angeles, California. I love making great software products that delights millions of users. When I'm not coding, I'm telling jokes at your local comedy club.
Email: l dot alexander 10 at gmail.com
Professional Work
TaskRabbit
- Migrated a legacy transactional messaging system that is responsible for sending over 500,000 messages per day.
- Implemented server-side anonymous ID persistence, fixing gaps in millions of Segment events and downstream analytics.
- Discovered and fixed a 9 month bug that prevented 500,000 users from updating notification preferences.
- Implemented homepage and search recommendations for an acquired company, Dolly, which resulted in over 11k referrals per month.
Rhino
- Discovered and fixed a bug that caused the business to lose $1 million in lifetime premium.
- Built the “Pay Now” feature which enabled the business to collect over $1 million in delinquent premium.
- Helped reduce Rhino's $2 million deficit by passing payment service fees to renters.
- Aided in Stripe re-architecture to simplify payment processing for over 500,000 renters.
- Fixed a security vulnerability in a critical webhook endpoint that received 70,000 requests per day.
- Improved bulk property uploader service to decrease property and tenant onboarding time.
- Implemented the Google Address API, which reduced claim adjustment time by 30%.
Nudiez
- Helped build and scale an NSFW/adult site that has generated over $30 million in revenue and counting.
Duffl
- Fixed authentication security vulnerabilities by migrating from token authentication to JWT authentication.
- Scaled database servers to handle increased traffic.
- Implemented application logging to surface and discover application errors.
Ticketmaster
- Created a service that de-indexed 190k thin content pages from Google to increase SEO ranking.
- Added seating charts to Ticketmaster Venue pages to increase seating chart SEO ranking.
- Built and updated A/B tests to deeplink users into the iOS and Android Ticketmaster apps.
Additional Professional Work
StubHub McCovey Cove
McCovey Cove was a project built for StubHub to showcase the history and importance of the San Francisco Giant's baseball stadium.
HighFive Workstyle Quiz
The HighFive Workstyle Quiz is an interactive website created for HighFive to help identify your ideal workstyle.
BrightRoll
BrightRoll is a project built for Yahoo's subsidiary to demonstrate how a marketer's audience is like fine wine.
Beyond the Beat
Beyond the Beat is an internal project developed for Column Five Media to showcase Rosetta Thorpe aka the Mother of Rock n' Roll during Black History Month.
Collab Creators
Collab Creators is the official website for Collab.
Cyndx Finder
Cyndx Finder is a search engine used by M&A analysts to find similar companies, concepts, and industries.
Collab DRM Website
Collab DRM is the official website for Collab's Digital Rights Management service.
Collab Audio Library
Collab Audio Library allows social media partners to search and download royalty-free music and sounds.
Collab Documents
Internal feature allowing claims teams to create and send agreements to users of clips we license.
Collab Compilation Maker
Internal tool for tracking YouTube video compilations created by Collab’s social media talent.
