# Alejandro Makarem

> Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alejandromakarem

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Passion for Front End performance, functional flavored frameworks, and spicy food.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Present | Greater New York City Area

### Web Developer Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
- Architected a file serving system that leverages caching and reduces asset delivery latency for Amazon's Comixology Store
- Improved the average project's PageSpeed score from 12/100 to 78/100 by decreasing the time-to-interact duration with load performance techniques (lazy loading, code splitting, critical css)
- Rewrote major web components into responsive CMS Widgets in order to create responsive views, to provide marketing control over content, and to improve the homepage SEO
- Migrated multiple projects' build process from PHP Yii asset manager to Gulp and Webpack in order to leverage the use of Sass, JSX, and ES2015

### Senior Frontend Developer @ 1stdibs.com
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
- Implemented a GraphQL service to decrease front-end (Web and Apps) reliance on back-end, improve load times, and create a clearer structure and flow of data
- Encouraged and helped teammates write new features in Node and React, helping the company move away from a dependence on Backbone and PHP

### Frontend Developer @ 1stdibs.com
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
- Converted Checkout and Profile code from MVC Backbone to React using Redux, immutability, and Relay
- Won the company's first hackathon by creating a micro service that tracks customers' product interaction in real-time using WebSockets and AWS (DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda)

### Software Developer @ Adcade
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area
- Created a user facing platform written in Angular, Grunt, Less, and Thrift client API which parsed and aggregated thousands of data entries (per request) into efficient and performant data models using Chart.js
- Developed an IDE that rendered a visual interface for an ad building platform using React and Electron

### Test Engineer @ AdaptiveBlue, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Greater New York City Area

### QA Intern @ Alexander Interactive
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Specialist @ Apple Retail
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Binghamton University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alejandromakarem
- GitHub: http://www.github.com/alejandromaka

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Last updated: 2026-03-22