# Alex Forsythe

> Staff Software Engineer at Grid

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexforsythe

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Grid
Jan 2023 – Present | United States
Leading Grid's technical direction on products like cash advance repayments and tax withholding optimization, data ingestion & analytics, backend infrastructure, and developer experience and productivity. I work in a fast-paced environment to:

• Develop technical strategies, designs, and best practices
• Increase revenue and reduce costs
• Prototype and build out new products
• Monitor & improve software performance and stability
• Guide engineers through challenges and execution of their projects

### Senior Software Engineer @ Samsara, Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | United States
Led Samsara's Industrial Core and Release Management engineering teams to build new products and features, collaborating across product, infra, mobile, and firmware teams to deliver highly available services to industrial & fleet customers and engineering, product & operations.

### Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend engineer on two teams under Uber's Driver Experience umbrella, where we built highly scalable and available systems to facilitate tens of millions of trips per day. I helped build the driver app's content delivery feed, which was eventually adopted by the rider team, too. As a key contributor on the team that stewards trip experience, I helped design and deliver various features for drivers across the world, such as improved arrival detection, paid wait time, and safety workflows.

I also helped advance company-wide engineering initiatives focused on high availability, such as migrating to at-least-once delivery queues, and contributed to designing & rebuilding the primary mobile API gateway used by teams across the company.

### Software Engineer @ Clover Network Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Maintained Clover's internal and external backend APIs:

• Built out new features
• Fixed bugs & performance bottlenecks
• Monitored stability & performance
• Improved infrastructure, middleware, & testing frameworks
• Documented changes for third-party developers

I also did some light frontend and Android development.

### Performance Engineer Intern @ salesforce.com
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Defined performance & acceptance test plans for Salesforce's Chatter and Self-Service products
• Automated headless performance tests with Java & Selenium
• Designed and built an internal monitoring tool for viewing page load times as a heatmap, using JavaScript and jQuery, to help identify performance bottlenecks

### Web Development Intern @ Famigo, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Austin, Texas Area
• Backend web development in Python & Django
• Frontend web development with HTML & CSS

### Instructor @ Wonder-Space
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Austin, Texas Area
WSTechCamp is a summer camp dedicated to sharing the world of computers and technology with youngsters between the ages of 7 and 17. As a camp counselor, I lead campers through innovative projects, fun activities, and lessons designed to help them discover new technologies.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2009 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexwforsythe
- Website: https://www.alexwforsythe.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22