# Alex F. > Staff Engineer @ Indeed (Staffing Solutions) Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexf1 Full Stack Software Engineer with extensive Staff and Team Lead experience. I’ve developed applications in JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, React, EmberJS and Ruby on Rails. I have a proven track record of success in consultancies, startups, mid-sized growth-stage companies, and large enterprises. I thrive on tackling challenging projects across diverse environments. I am grateful for the opportunity to guide teams through complex projects and foster a trusted, collaborative environment. Currently, I lead cross-functional teams and am actively learning to better align engineering efforts with business objectives while cultivating a culture of continuous improvement. I am committed to growing these skills to enhance my leadership capabilities and drive successful outcomes. My computer engineering background has given me an appreciation for hardware and low-level programming, but my passion has evolved into building ambitious web applications and leading talented engineering teams. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Indeed.com Jan 2023 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States • Leads the development and configuration of an automated end-to-end test suite using Gitlab CI Pipelines and Cypress.io, ensuring reliable changes for both micro-frontends and backend services. • Drives the incremental transition of a monolith web app to federated micro-frontends, improving reliability, reusability, and long-term maintainability. • Establishes best practices and processes within the Product Group, including Tech Review and Project Lead guidelines, clarifying requirements and delivery expectations for cross-functional stakeholders. • Organized Datadog dashboard learning sessions to onboard product group engineers onto alerting, monitoring, and querying usage analytics, enhancing the domain's decision-making process. ### Staff Frontend Engineer @ Indeed Flex Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom ### Product Engineer @ Intercom Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom • Collaborated cross-functionally with team's product manager and designer to deeply understand the customer problem. • Advocated for a culture of observability and monitoring within the group, championing an increased usage of Honeycomb dashboards to help drive decisions among both engineers and product managers within the group. • Provided strong cadence of feedback on tech plans, design documents, and individual performances to help build great products and high-trust teams. • Authored tech plans and drives estimation and planning for team projects which span anywhere from 6 weeks to 6 months. ### Lead Frontend Engineer @ TrueCoach Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Boulder, Colorado • Coached, mentored and delivered feedback to junior frontend engineers learning EmberJs. • Collaborated cross-functionally with CEO, product owners, customer support specialists and designers to scope and prioritize a project into deliverable and maintainable parts. • Reduced continuous integration (CI) test times up to 70% by parallelizing tests across multiple partitions. • Improved reliability by enabling anyone to QA an open pull request by continuously deploying (CD) experimental builds for each commit on an open pull requests using Heroku Review Apps. • Led planning and execution for major frontend web application features. ### Frontend Developer @ The Frontside Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area • Consulted and pair programmed with clients to help create shared solutions for customer problems. • Implemented frontend testing strategies for EdTech company with maintainability at the forefront. • Authored open-source Javascript libraries for lazily fetching paginated datasets to leverage infinite scroll UI solutions. ### Student @ MakerSquare Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | 716 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701 ### Digital Logic Designer @ Freescale Semiconductor Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 • Design and Support IP Blocks utilizing Hardware Communication Protocols (Verilog) • Debug Logic using Verdi Waveform Analysis tools • Modify and Design Parallel Pattern Code Generator (C) ### Engineering Rotation Program @ Freescale Semiconductor Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 • Rotation #1: Software Engineer - Developed Java Application in Eclipse IDE to Flash Program Memory (Java, TCL) • Rotation #2: Digital Logic Designer - Developed IP, Wrote Implementation documents, and performed timing analysis for Address / Data Translation IP Blocks (Verilog, Adobe Framemaker). • Rotation #3: Analog Designer - Modified and Designed unique ADC architecture using Cadence Tools, as well as testbench simulation environments. ### Digital Logic Design (VHDL) Teaching Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 ### Design for Test (Co-op) @ ARM Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 • Assisted the team in creating industry-standard benchmarks. • Maintained Perl script which generated test patterns to be consumed by self-testing integrated circuits. ### Computer Engineering Tutor @ University of Texas at Austin Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### BSEE in Computer Engineering The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### Web Development MakerSquare Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexford44 - GitHub: http://github.com/flexyford --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexf1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexf1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22