Alexander Harper

Senior Software Engineer at Tesla · Search and ranking

Tesla

New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)

6+ years experience

Rhode Island School of Design

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6 years in software engineering, the last 4 at Tesla, where I work on the search team. Wrote the Lucene service that now handles 22 million requests a day. Most at home with Java and Lucene. Learning woodworking.

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LuceneScalaA/B testingJavaPythonElasticsearchlearning to rank

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
Dec 2022 - Present
Tesla · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Reduced cloud spend on search by 26% in two quarters.
- Built the experimentation framework 29 product teams use to ship changes safely.
- Wrote the A/B testing service that now handles 2 million requests a day.
Software Engineer
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Shopify · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Cut p99 latency on the search services from 366ms to 153ms.
- Reduced cloud spend on search by 37% in two quarters.

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Education

Rhode Island School of Design
BFA, Information Technology
2016 - 2020

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