# Alex Lazar

> Senior Software Engineer at Halcyon

Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexlazar

Software development engineering looking to solve problems

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Halcyon
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Kodex
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dandy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Moveworks
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Air Labs, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Gowanus, New York, United States
Used Lambda/Serverless, Node, Postgres/SQL to rapidly and scalably build new backend features
Created data pipeline to import hundreds of terabytes of media from cloud and physical services, transcode video and process images in a reliable and expandible manner
Wrote bridged Swift code for React Native app to efficiently handle camera and camera roll, updated codebase to Typescript with redux, sagas and selectors

### Software Engineer @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Venice, California
Developed optimizations for threading of the Android app, reducing thread count and balancing foreground/background work to improve performance, metrics and maintainability.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Menlo park
Implemented framework for seller level review in removal of unsavory ads and marketplace posts. This allowed faster action to be taken against repeat offenders resulting in a safer user environment.

### Jr. SDE @ Amazon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
San Francisco: Developed a publishing tracking system for the Digital Music Catalog team. This gave better metrics, earlier failure detection and automated error correction, which also vastly reduced on-call work.

San Luis Obispo: Worked full time summer/part time school year on various projects pertinent to Amazon, primarily turning old synchronous code into scalable asynchronous code for Kindle self publish royalties

### Teacher's Assistant @ Digital Media Academy
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Stanford
Taught basic programming to 13-17 year old students.

### Curriculum Tester / alpha member @ Make School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Menlo Park

### Intern @ Mindjolt
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Intern @ FinancialOS
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

### Menlo School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-lazar-7b505770

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Last updated: 2026-03-22