Alexander Hale

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Senior Backend Engineer at Brightline Financial · API platforms · PostgreSQL, REST

Brightline Financial
Washington, DC · ET (UTC-5)
7+ years experience
NYU
English
Open to work
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Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Brightline Financial, where I work on the public API team. Grew the public API team from 3 to 35 engineers. Shipped 20 launches on the public API team without a rollback.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in API platforms
  • Working sessions on PostgreSQL
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  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Crypto token projects

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
RedisDjangoRESTPostgreSQLPythonOpenAPIrate limiting
Open to workLooking for a role
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Lead Backend Engineer roles in supply chain - Washington or remote

Target roles
Lead Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Fintech, Consumer apps
Work mode
Remote
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the DC
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Python with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Crypto

7 years in API platforms. Strongest at Redis and PostgreSQL. Available immediately.

Washington, DCrate limitingpostgresqlpython
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Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    May 2022 - Present
    Brightline Financial · 4 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Shipped 23 launches on the public API team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 32 a week to 1.
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 9 million requests a day.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2019 - May 2022
    Ford · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Washington, DC
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 653ms to 152ms.
    • Wrote the Django service that now handles 9 million requests a day.

Projects

Open-source OpenAPI toolkit
2026

A small library for API platforms that 130 developers star on GitHub.

Conference talk: lessons from public API
2022

What went wrong and what worked while scaling API platforms.

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Education

  1. NYU
    BA, Electrical Engineering
    2015 - 2019

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