# Alex Ford > Engineer at Cocoon Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexford ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Cocoon Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Cocoon Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 ### Software Engineer II @ Twitter Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Contributed to the build of advertiser-facing UI and backend services to support small to large businesses on ads.twitter.com: - Completed an internal tooling project which allowed for launch of the Twitter Business Settings to ~100k professionals, managed and un-managed SMB advertisers, and large brand advertisers (ie. Nike, Apple, OMD) - Contributed and led user-facing and internal customer workstreams within the Twitter Business Settings and Self-Serve Insertion Order project - estimated to unlock $3b revenue by Q1 2024 - Led team product launching efforts, creating epic timelines and technical documentation and proposals, and driving work necessary for future launches and customer support - Ensured new team members were onboarded seamlessly and familiar with Twitter’s monolithic tech stack ### Software Engineer @ Twitter Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Within the Advertiser Experience Business Foundation department: - Actively collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders (Product, Design, Legal, Security, and Sales) to create key solutions for businesses to manage their accounts and assets on Twitter utilizing skills in Scala, ReactJS, Strato, GraphQL, etc. - Owned and architected a project that built crucial internal tools for AdOps and TechOps support teams, prioritizing security and external stakeholder asks ### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Within the Office Media Group, collaborated closely with designers and senior engineers to develop the customer-facing “bookmarks in video” feature in ReactJS and TypeScript to improve Microsoft Stream’s user experience ### Software Engineer Co-Op (Test Enablement Development Platforms) @ Wayfair Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts Worked on the Development Platforms Test Enablement team, - Responsible for DevOps and CI/CD at Wayfair and ensuring the success of the software cycle by developing useful tools on platforms that are in use by Wayfair engineers through projects like helping to develop an autoscaling solution for the cloud platform - Gained experience in developing tools used for Buildkite, Terraform, Puppet, Docker, SonarQube, Google Cloud Platform, etc. ### Sophomore Edge Participant @ JPMorgan Chase & Co. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Chicago, Illinois This program that provided training experiences for underrepresented minorities looking to go into the Financial Services industry. ### Teaching Assistant for Summer Immersion Program @ AT&T @ Girls Who Code Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Aided in closing the gender gap in the STEM field by teaching computer science concepts, various programming languages, and useful life skills to promote confidence in high school-aged girls; mentored students in leadership, collaboration, and fighting imposter syndrome ### Summer Immersion Program Participant @ Lockheed Martin @ Girls Who Code Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Worked with programming languages like Python, Java, Javascript, HTML/CSS on different projects like web development and other coding projects. ## Education ### Information Technology & Web Science in Information Security Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ### Annapolis Area Christian School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ford-alex --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexford JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexford/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30