# Alan L.

> Senior Software Engineering @ Discord

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alanl

Revenue Infra team @ Discord. Previously - Distributed systems, queues, and integrations at IFTTT.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Discord
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer - Subscriptions Team Lead @ IFTTT
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Designed and led the in-app payments implementation across multiple teams and
achieved company subscriber goals.
• Proposed high impact features earning at least 1M ARR.
• Migrated infrastructure to Kubernetes with minimal downtime saving $40k monthly.
• Defined SLAs to improve site reliability using CloudWatch, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and
PagerDuty.
• Managed Datalake and ETL pipelines built on Airflow, Spark, SQL, S3, and Kinesis.

### Senior Software Engineer - Partner Platform Team Lead @ IFTTT
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led the platform team to build various high impact enterprise features in React.
• Participated in customer meetings, and proposed technical solutions critical for the
sales team to close 6 figure deals.
• Managed IFTTTs polling system performing +500M external API requests per day.
• Updated legacy REST APIs to GraphQL and maintained various Node and Scala
services using Redis and Protobuf.

### Software Engineer - API Integrations Team @ IFTTT
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed and maintained 50+ API integrations in Rails and Scala.
• Designed a caching layer using webhooks and Redis resulting in 6M fewer API calls.
• Updated DB migration scripts and achieved at least a 10x speed improvement by
writing more efficient SQL queries and distributing work using Resque.
• Worked directly with users and customers by managing IFTTT s community through
Zendesk and IFTTTs subreddit.

### Founding Software Engineer @ Pepperword Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
• Built a responsive web app with Typescript using React, Redux and Webpack.
• Implemented a deployment pipeline using Docker containers.
• Developed an iOS app using React Native.

### Software Engineer @ Visa
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Foster City, CA
• Decomposed the main monolithic application into multiple services in Docker.
• Developed a framework to support credit card billing using Java Vertx.
• Took initiative to containerize legacy applications to improve developer setups.

### Software Engineer Internship @ EFI
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Fremont, CA
• Implemented a tool to archive system logs after unexpected crashes using C.

### Laboratory Intern @ UC Irvine
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Irvine, CA
• Designed and developed an Android app to monitor depression in collaboration with Didi Hirsh Mental Hospital.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Transfer in Computer Science
Mt. San Antonio College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alan-l-0a6a5881
- GitHub: https://github.com/alantly

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Last updated: 2026-03-22