# Alex Bettadapur > Staff Software Engineer at Figma Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexbettadapur Front end engineering on Facebook Messenger I enjoy working on front end websites, using modern web technologies such as React, Typescript and Webpack ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Figma Jan 2021 – Present | United States Working on the Figma Frontend Platform team * Added async imports and code splitting to the entire JS codebase to keep Figma's large bundle sizes in check * Maintaining the build systems that all of Figma's engineers use to write and deploy JS code * Moved Figma's web deployments from a weekly cadence to a daily cadence to increase developer velocity * Overhauling Figma's approach to styling and CSS systems ### Senior Front End Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington Working on the Messenger Desktop team ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, Washington Working on the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Redmond I work on the Microsoft Office Project team ### Software Engineer @ Cirrity Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Working on developing Cirrity’s new customer portal, written entirely in ASP.NET MVC Developed a tool that collects metrics from Cirrity’s datacenters and generates usage reports for customers Manage a distributed backup system that replicates customer backups to Cirrity’s datacenter. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Added a human readable identifier to the Project entity in Project Server and Project Online. This involved 1. Creating a development design document with my proposed changes 2. Adding new stored procedures to a large scale SQL Server instance 3. Adding new C# business and validation logic to a large scale codebase 4. Writing an array of data driven tests to validate my changes Worked with big-data processing frameworks to analyze and tag Project Online usage logs Gained valuable experience in working with large-scale codebases and databases. ### Student Researcher @ Georgia Tech Research Institute Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Worked on a PHP website for Diabetes Care. The website used the Yii PHP framework and Angular.js for the front-end. Worked with Xamarin for Android and created a cross platform Xbee library for .NET ### Software Engineering Intern @ Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Atlanta Contributed to Marconi, a new queuing package that will be part of the OpenStack project. Worked with the RabbitMQ queuing service. Provisioned clusters of RMQ systems using OpenStack Heat. Worked with the Cassandra NoSQL database. Researched possible implementation strategies and migration strategies. Gained valuable experience in Python development and the open-source contribution process. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Atlanta I worked with Dr. Jim Rehg and PhD student Brian Goldfain with computer vision and autonomous vehicle research. Involves writing C++ code for ROS (robot operating system) that is used to control a model car that I have helped build with other undergraduate students. ### Summer Intern, Development & Operations @ IgnitionOne Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Atlanta Implemented Hubot, a chatbot that can execute scripts in the chat window. Worked with large scale databases in MongoDB Built a pixel tracking server in node that logged page hits at an improved rate of 20k r/s Investigated the use of downloadable virtual machines using Vagrant Integrated Mongoose call tracking into IgnitionOne’s Digital Marketing Suite Started an overhaul of the systems logging process ### Summer Intern @ Mohawk Industries Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 I worked on testing various mobile application development platforms that were cross platform. I was involved in helping the company making a decision between three different platforms: PhoneGap, Appcelerator, and OpenText Wave ## Education ### Computer Science in Systems/Architecture and Networks Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abettadapur - GitHub: http://github.com/abettadapur - Website: http://alex.bettadapur.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexbettadapur JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexbettadapur/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22