# Alex Franklin

> Senior Software Engineer | Systems Architect | TS · Vite · React · Node | Pragmatism over Hype-Train

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

## Work Experience
### Independent Contractor / Software Engineer @ Teya
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Remote

### Independent Contractor / Software Engineer @ Teya
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Remote
• Architected an automated ingestion engine in Node.js to transform unstructured merchant goods-data into structured e-commerce product catalogs.
• Led technical feasibility analysis on automation pipelines, identifying critical failure points where highly fragmented data required unreliable assumptions, and advocated for more robust data-structuring strategies.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Wing
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Remote
• Architected and stabilized foundational NestJS APIs for mobile financial workflows, establishing robust, auditable service boundaries for high-stakes Plaid and Alpaca integrations.
• Engineered a custom React SSR server to deliver dynamic, high-performance content within mobile WebKit WebViews, significantly reducing incident rates through targeted performance tuning.
• Acted as technical lead for legacy refactors, reducing technical debt and improving system resilience across distributed fintech services.

### Software Engineer II @ Coinme
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote
• Built a mission-critical internal support dashboard (MERN) from the ground up, resulting in a 99% reduction in resolution time and fundamentally changing how support operations scaled.
• Spearheaded modernization of the developer toolchain, migrating from Webpack to Vite to significantly improve build speeds and developer velocity across the team.
• Implemented secure AWS Lambda workflows for auditable transaction reconciliation, ensuring data integrity across large-scale financial data flows.

### Software Engineer @ Acorns
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote
• Developed internal React/Node.js tooling used by support teams to resolve complex transaction issues in a high-scale fintech environment.
• Identified and resolved root-cause data integrity issues through deep-dive analysis of production incidents affecting millions of financial data flows.
• Collaborated on data integrity fixes across a large-scale, high-concurrency codebase, ensuring accuracy for mission-critical financial records.

### Co-Founder & Lead Developer @ Cedar Club
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Remote
• Owned the end-to-end technical roadmap and execution for a Shopify-based e-commerce platform, scaling from initial ideation to a successful production launch.
• Directed all technical decisions across frontend, backend, and infrastructure, using engagement metrics and iterative UX changes to drive conversion growth.

### Teaching Assistant @ General Assembly
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Monica, CA
• Mentored 24 students through the MERN stack, translating complex architectural concepts into actionable learning paths for full-stack development.
• Debugged and reviewed hundreds of codebases, identifying common pitfalls in early-stage applications and establishing best practices for clean, modular code.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/the-alex-franklin

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Last updated: 2026-03-20