Alexander Wright
Principal Systems Architect & Lead Software Engineer
Professional Summary
Staff Software Architect with 10+ years specializing in distributed backend systems, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud infrastructure. Spearheaded cloud optimization workflows reducing enterprise cloud expenditure by $1.4M annually while maintaining 99.999% SLA for enterprise clients.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Engineered multi-region active-active failover mesh handling 55,000 QPS with sub-25ms global latency.
- Eliminated $380,000 in monthly database compute waste through index restructuring and Redis pipelining.
- Supervised a squad of 16 senior platform engineers across 4 geographical time zones.
- Scaled Apache Kafka event ingestion pipeline from 200MB/s to 1.8GB/s without message drop or drift.
- Standardized OpenTelemetry tracing across 40+ microservices, cutting MTTD by 62%.
Key Projects
Automated continuous container vulnerability scanner adopted by 900+ public GitHub repositories; reduces compliance reporting turnaround from weeks to minutes.
Education
Magna Cum Laude • Specialization in Distributed Algorithms