Alex Beck

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Senior Engineering Manager at Fenwick Logistics · Platform engineering · observability, Backstage

Fenwick Logistics
Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)
12+ years experience
NYU
English
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Overview

Senior Engineering Manager at Fenwick Logistics, focused on platform engineering. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 6. Before that: American Express and Qualcomm. Most at home with Kubernetes and Bazel. Swimming before work keeps me sane.

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Skills
GoBackstageKubernetesobservabilityCI/CDBazel
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Building out developer platform at Fenwick Logistics: mobile engineers wanted in Washington

Role
Mobile engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$126k-$168k + equity
Team
Developer platform, 18 people
Start
Within a month
Must have
Production experience with CI/CD Production experience with Backstage Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp $174k-$252k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Washington, DCci/cdgobazel
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Fenwick Logistics · 7 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Led the migration of 30 services to Backstage.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 18 a week to 4.
  2. Staff Platform Engineer
    Dec 2022 - Mar 2026
    American Express · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 760ms to 98ms.
    • Moved 68% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Senior Platform Engineer
    Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
    Qualcomm · 3 yr · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Moved 91% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Platform Engineer
    Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
    MongoDB · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 26 minutes to under 4.
    • Moved 84% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Platform Engineer
    Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
    Lockheed Martin · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 43% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. NYU
    BA, Information Technology
    2009 - 2013

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