# Alex Hamstra

> Front End Software Engineer at Anduril Industries

Location: Lake Forest, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexhamstra

Tenured developer with 9 years experience building customer facing software. Extensive background meeting tough deadlines and making hard tradeoffs to deliver features and fixes to grow the company. Now seeking opportunities to tackle complex, interactive customer experiences.

## Work Experience
### Senior Front End Software Engineer @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2020 – Present | Irvine, California, United States

### Senior Front End Developer @ Peerspace
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
- Extracted large services into manageable micro services enabling more developers to be service owners.
- Mentored team members by setting up “Tech Thursdays” where we discuss new technologies as a team and have architecture design discussions.
- Redesigned the homepage with data driven components, allowing Product to manage data sources.
- Refactored and upgraded technologies to leverage more current design patterns.
- Updated legacy architecture to integrate ReactJS hot-reloading, reducing development load times by 150%.
- When company needs shifted, I learned clojurescript and delivered our admin add-ons management.
- A/B tested attendee invite page changes and increased signups by 10%.

### Front End Software Engineer @ Veem
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- As Scrum Master, decreased team meetings by 50% leading to an increase in velocity by 20%.
- Provided mentorship to newer team members, increasing their velocity by 30%. 
- Added Quickbooks integration user interface which increased GMV by over 10%.
- Iteratively updated the signup flow to reduce friction, resulting in 15% more signups. 
- Designed foundational customer features and internal tools using React and Redux.
- Interviewed new developers to grow the front-end team from 3 to 9 developers.
- Built a framework for API communication to standardize calls and reducing dev time by 4 hours per feature.

### Software Development Engineer II @ Workday
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
- Managed an intern project for implementing websockets.
- Developed data driven front end components.
- Designed and implemented infrastructure to host CI/CD tooling, saving each developer multiple hours per week.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Commission Junction
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Worked on the DevOps team maintaining and building new deployment and engineering software tools.

### Engineering Intern @ j2 Global Communications
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Designed a web interface for an Oracle SQL based database.


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22