# Alex Koppara

> Software Engineering Manager

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexkoppara

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer (Manager) @ SoundExchange
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ SoundExchange
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
• Modernized PDF signatures into event-driven DocuSign pipeline (Step Functions, IaC) supporting 200 docs/day
• Refactored authentication system from Django Auth to Amazon Cognito and enabled MFA for 500k users
• Developed electronic tax document system for 50k users, reducing mailing costs by 10% with instant delivery time

### Founding Senior Software Engineer @ Camber
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Second hire; served as Tech Lead of Clinic & Patient Team and provided mentorship to junior engineers
• Architected in-house data ingestion platform using Python, Celery, and SQS to process 1M+ patient sessions
• Developed billing pipeline orchestrated with Prefect to submit $130M in insurance claims to Change Healthcare
• Automated generation and collection of over $6.5M in patient invoices by integrating with Stripe
• Led data transparency initiative by building customer dashboards to surface RCM data using Postgres and DBT
• Designed and developed React app to asynchronously communicate and remediate denials for claims
• Automated categorization and communication of 90% of incoming insurance denials using historical claim data

### Founder @ Maveli Coffee
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
• Generated over $50K in annual revenue through a multi-channel strategy including DTC, wholesale, & e-commerce
• Managed E2E supply chain, coordinating imports from India and production with a third-party roaster in NYC

### Software Consultant @ Unknown
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Clients:
· HouseRX
· Barsala

### Senior Software Engineer @ Headway
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Activated over 1000 therapists by building API integration with Zocdoc and merging appointment systems
• Modernized existing application authentication with JWT based system and roles, enabling third party RPA

### Software Engineer @ Thirty Madison
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Built Picnic direct-to-consumer allergy product using React (NextJS) and Apollo GraphQL
• Implemented A/B testing using Google Optimize integrated with Google Analytics

### Lead Software Engineer @ Domio
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
• Served as Tech Lead of Guest Facing technology team (7 engineers, 1 UX Designer, 1 Product Manager)
• Drove direct booking from 8% to 25% by prioritizing and building features jointly with Product and Marketing
• Architected and led implementation of rewards program using Flask, Celery, RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL
• Developed React Native app to remediate 50% of incoming guest queries without customer associate intervention

### Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
• Developed lightweight REST API’s with Golang to store credit decisions in PostgreSQL database
• Implemented internal facing Zillow-like application using Angular for commercial real estate leads

### Software Development Intern @ Epic
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
· Designed and developed a web application prototype for emergency room nurse work stations
· Incorporated features and design using feedback from internal testing with nurses


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Information Science
Cornell University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-30