# Alexander Goodkind > Software Engineer @ Chime | prev. Salesforce, Slack, Tumblr Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexandergoodkind Building resilient distributed systems that scale to millions—from startup velocity to enterprise reliability. Software Engineer at Chime with 5+ years architecting high-traffic distributed systems at companies like Slack, Salesforce, and Tumblr. I specialize in Ruby on Rails, Go, TypeScript, Python, and Hack/PHP to build scalable frontend and backend infrastructure that handles millions of concurrent users and petabytes of data Key achievements: • Architected enterprise systems at Slack serving 1M+ channels with real-time data processing and compliance frameworks • Built API endpoints enabling seamless onboarding of 120K+ users for major enterprise clients • Developed automated infrastructure provisioning managing 5,000+ server nodes, reducing deployment downtime by 8 hours • Led UI development for distributed AI platforms, creating intuitive interfaces for complex data pipelines My expertise spans full-stack development, database optimization (MySQL, PostgreSQL), microservices architecture, and enterprise-scale system design. I thrive on solving complex distributed computing challenges—from data retention systems processing terabytes daily to real-time financial infrastructure supporting millions of transactions. When I’m not optimizing database queries or debugging distributed race conditions, you’ll find me exploring how technology can create more inclusive systems for the LGBTQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Chime Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States At Chime, we process millions of transactions per day. I am building the next generation of transaction intelligence and insights across mobile, API, and backend layers on a massively distributed, horizontally scaled transactions platform that underpins core user and system flows and enables detailed, on-demand insights through large-scale aggregation and enrichment. My work spans a modern full-stack environment, with member-facing mobile experiences built in TypeScript, APIs and backend services primarily in Ruby, and large-scale indexing and retrieval powered by OpenSearch. These systems support ingestion, aggregation, and enrichment of transaction data at scale, enabling highly engaged, insight-driven product experiences that surface timely, relevant information to members and help drive long-term engagement and retention. ### Software Engineer @ AI Startup Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States In this role I led the UI development of an AI Quality Assurance platform and a Chrome extension AI co-pilot. I integrated multiple data sources into intuitive user interfaces designed to enhance productivity and automate complex tasks. ### Software Engineer II @ Slack Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States While at Slack I spent most of my time improving and refactoring our Data Retention library to be more portable, efficient, and resilient. I placed a heavy focus on improving and maintaining all of the compliance systems at Slack including Legal Holds, Data Loss Prevention, and Custom Terms of Service, among others. Much of my work at Slack required collecting and analyzing metrics across our backend systems, onboarding and mentoring new teammates, and communicating across product teams ensuring technical decisions were visible and well understood. ### Software Engineer I @ Slack Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Associate Software Engineer @ Slack Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Member Of Technical Staff @ Salesforce Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineering Intern @ Slack Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States During my second summer internship at Slack, I worked remotely on the Enterprise Compliance team. I was directly responsible for a highly requested feature that enables large customers to have a high level of control over retention policies for 1,000,000+ channels. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Slack Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States While at Slack I built several critical features for our largest enterprise customers. One of the features I spearheaded was an administrative API endpoint that has enabled our largest customer to onboard more than 120,000 additional users on to their Slack organization. At the same time, I also drove the development of a highly requested feature that provides a way to efficiently manage how 350,000+ users contact their administrators. ### Site Reliability Engineering Intern @ Tumblr Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York During my time at Tumblr I developed an interface using Ruby and Collins to automate the provisioning of over 5,000 server nodes in two separate datacenters. After deploying my code to a product used by over 300 million people, we found that engineering downtime had been reduced by 8 hours. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Cum Laude, Computer Science Rutgers University ### Associate of Science - AS in with honors, Computer Science Camden County College ### High School Diploma in with honors New Hope Academy ### High School Diploma Cherry Hill High School East ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/agoodkind - Portfolio: https://goodkind.io - GitHub: https://github.com/agoodkind --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexandergoodkind JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexandergoodkind/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11