# Alexis Willis

> Software Engineer @ Virgin Orbit

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexiswillis

Adventurous, lifelong learner who loves to be challenged. Proficient in Python. Constantly growing to become a better problem solver.

## Work Experience
### Fullstack Software Engineer @ Virgin Orbit
Jan 2022 – Present | Long Beach, California, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Virgin Orbit
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Long Beach, California, United States
- Develop mission support tools to ensure flight data is valid for each rocket launch
- Build RestAPI's, microservices, and full stack applications in Javascript, Node.js, Express.js, postgreSQL, and Vue.js
- use Atlassian products for version control, documentation, and project management (Bitbucket, Confluence, JIRA)

### Backend Software Engineering Fellow @ Formation
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Selected for highly competitive fellowship with personalized coaching from top-tier software engineers
- Completed intensive training to master theoretical computer science topics through independent projects, pair-programming, and small mentor-lead groups
- Awarded the weekly Rising Tide distinction as a result of peers nominating the Fellow who has been most helpful in their technical learning journey
- Mentored a junior fellow in the program

### Software Engineer Intern @ Braven
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Built an API in Ruby on Rails that plays hangman. Program will be used as an interview question for software engineer candidates to connect to the server and improve the efficiency of the game. Deployed app to Heroku. 
- Efficiently communicated and reported to the Chief Technology Officer across a different time zone.
- Built and deployed 3 Ruby Rake tasks that simplified the engineering teams' daily task plan of updating Salesforce with new student data.

### Product and Technical Support @ Braven
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Engineering and Technical Support Intern @ Blendid
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Research Internship @ Simmons University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
-Collaborated with three research assistants and two mentors to research the possibility of creating an alternative fossil fuel by synthesizing AM-6 crystals and combining them with E. Coli cells to produce Hydrogen gas (water splitting)
-Wrote critical reviews for eight research papers that clearly stated the author’s objective, how the experiment was performed, a statement of assumptions made, and quantitative analyses of those assumptions
-Operated a scanning electron microscope to analyze the shape, size, purity, and topography of the sample and did a comparative analysis with data obtained from an x-ray diffractometer

### Computer Tutor @ Santa Barbara City College
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Santa Barbara, California Area
-Support approximately 50 students a day with questions regarding Google Drive, Microsoft Office, and other computer applications  
- Kept staff informed of student’s progress by updating the lab’s website with frequently asked questions

### NCAS Student Assistant @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
-Served as a Test Engineer for a week-long robotics competition, and contributed to my team’s success by assuring the rovers’ hardware and software were working properly before each competition
- Presented a PowerPoint presentation to 40 students and a panel of NASA engineers explaining our team’s workflow process, successes, failures, and results.
-Asked to return to JPL as a student assistant based on my exceptional leadership and collaborative
characteristics to collaborate with 4 NASA engineers and help mentor 40 students through the same robotics competition


## Education
### Computer Science
Western Governors University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
San José State University

### Computer Engineering
Santa Barbara City College


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29