I am a platform agnostic and versatile engineer with a Get Things Done mindset. I enjoy grokking new technologies and have extensive experience using Python, c#, T-SQL, Flask Microframework, .net, relational database design and optimization, and NoSQL solutions such as redis and memcached

Principal Software Engineer @ From January 2014 to Present (1 year 10 months) culver city, caVP of Engineering @ At Viddy, I work with a small team that builds products to help millions of people capture, create and share mobile videos and photos. Some things I've worked on are: + Lead the development of our private and public APIs. This entails things such as implementation of feeds like: following, popular, trending, recommended, notifications, activities; user actions such as likes, comments, follow, unfollow; media upload workflows. +Mobile push notification and email notification implementation. +Created Facebook-like newsfeed based on user affinity. +Helped build recommendation engines using rich social graph databases using Neo4j +Developed real-time communication API’s using socket.io and Node.js +Implemented eventual consistency design patterns using AWS Simple Queue Service and Celery Distributed Task Queue. +Built our searcher and indexer infrastructure using Lucene. We eventually migrated this solution over to AWS CloudSearch +Work with our product and mobile engineers to provide them with scalable solutions in a timely manner. +Built scalable architecture that supported 40+ million users +Experience with AWS and Azure cloud environments From March 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 11 months) venice, caConsulting Software Engineer @ At Code Particle I worked as a consulting software engineer on a variety of projects, including: +Facebook and GMG Entertainment for Facebook Gift Cards (Facebook Credits) +Viddy +Boldride.com for daily, weekly, monthly recommendation lists +customized CMS systems Core technologies used included C#, MSSQL, Azure, and JQuery. From November 2010 to March 2012 (1 year 5 months) 608 Hampton Drive Venice, CA 90291President @ From 2005 to 2012 (7 years) Sherman Oaks, CA 91403Consulting Software Engineer @ At Oakwood Worldwide I worked as a consulting software engineer on several large scale applications, including: +An online availability and reservation system used for all U.S. and certain international bookings. +Provided application-level connectivity with legacy mainframe and CRM systems(Siebel) using BizTalk as the primary integration point. +Worked on several rewrite & conversion projects migrating classic asp to newer code base +Database design, development, and optimization From August 2004 to May 2011 (6 years 10 months) 2222 Corinth Avenue Los AngelesSoftware Engineer @ Worked as a member of a development team to maintain two high traffic financial websites and one in-house intranet site. From July 2003 to August 2004 (1 year 2 months) 12655 Beatrice Street Los Angeles, CA 90066Web Developer for the Center for Economic Development @ Used HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and PHP to develop and maintain web sites for the Center for Economic Development. From June 2002 to May 2003 (1 year) Los Angeles, California 90089

BS, Computer Science / Minor in Business @ University of Southern California From 1999 to 2003 Alex V. is skilled in: C#, SQL Server, ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, JavaScript, .NET, T-SQL, HTML, ASP, XML, SQL Server 2000-2008, jQuery, LINQ, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Web Services, IIS, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON, Application Development, Web Applications, Web Development, API, MySQL, REST, ASP.NET AJAX, HTML5, Microsoft SQL Server, Python, Agile Methodologies, Windows Azure, Objective-C, Git, TFS, Amazon Web Services..., Databases, Mobile Applications, Subversion, Database Design, Memcached, C# 4.0, Awesomeness, SOAP, WCF, APIs, Software Development