# Alex Farra

> Senior Software Engineer at Snowflake

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexfarra

Engineering Systems @ Snowflake

Interested and skilled in Infrastructure, CI/CD, Developer Productivity, Distributed Systems

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Engineering Infrastructure / CI

### Software Engineer Intern @ Cloudera
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Internal Tools and Services Team

- Developed a smart scheduler as a service for all incoming test requests in Cloudera’s testing infrastructure pipeline. The scheduler was optimized to both lower datacenter costs as well as provide features for halting test runs based on downstream infrastructure failures.

- Learned how to deploy a service required to handle thousands of large business critical requests throughout the day as well as how to navigate the human side of creating internal tools (reluctance to adapt to new requirements, how to handle SLAs).

- Learned how to properly containerize and write end to end tests using Docker and testing frameworks to automate the deployment and testing of a service. 

- Learned to navigate a large code base consisting of both closed source (internal tools, build systems, etc.) and open source projects (Apache Hadoop, Impala, Spark, etc.).

### Hackathon Organizer @ BostonHacks
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts
Member of the tech team for BostonHacks where I am working on building a new open source registration portal for our event as well as the Hackathon community as a whole. The site is being built using Node.js with Express and MongoDB on the backend, and Handlebars.js for templating the frontend.

### Website Administrator @ The Daily Free Press
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
Maintainer for the Boston University Newspaper's website. The site runs on a LAMP (Linux, Apache httpd, MySQL, PHP) stack and sees around 6,000 unique visitors per month.

### Research Assistant @ Boston University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
Worked as a research assistant at Boston University under Professor Abraham Matta (Computer Networks). I worked on an ongoing project to automate the execution and deployment of cloud based ecological forecasting models. I helped to design and develop the system architecture and a web-app for the entire pipeline of the execution of models using Python, MongoDB, and Apache OpenWhisk. I also helped to maintain the Unix webservers used to serve the site and communicate with the cloud based OpenWhisk instances.

### Software Engineer Intern @ CeQur
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
I worked to develop a prototype android application for CeQur's wearable medical device. The device used NFC with a custom data format to communicate with the phone, and my app was able to read and parse the information for the user.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Boston University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexfarra

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Last updated: 2026-03-29