# Alex Marvick

> Software Engineer

Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexmarvick

I'm a self-taught software engineer for the web and have honed my craft since my college years. I'm always looking out to meet creative and curious folks, keep growing and help others along the way!

Check out my work at:
https://www.alexmarvick.com
https://github.com/amarvick

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ SiriusXM
Jan 2023 – Present
• Drove the design & implementation of an ad block detection system supporting emerging ads infrastructure, balancing accuracy, performance and long-term maintainability
• Identified observability gaps in ad block detection, established analytics and monitoring strategies, and converted insights into actionable tickets that informed subsequent improvements.
• Architecting a comprehensive technical map of the Playback domain, detailing core functionalities through written and visual documentation to streamline cross-team collaboration
• Owned a high-traffic search experience for 30M+ subscribers, optimizing usability and performance
• Spearheaded accessibility best practices by delivering a training session to 30+ engineers and shaping ads product considerations through advocacy and documentation
• Deployed feature flags and A/B tests to drive incremental, data-informed releases

### Web UI Developer @ Lab49
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
• Optimized applications by reducing up to 80% of code to increase overall performance
• Lead front-end engineering for projects by establishing design guidelines and frameworks
• Collaborated cross functionally with front & back end developers, PMs and external stakeholders to discuss client deliverables, data modeling, code execution and APIs
• Conducted technical interviews with candidates to evaluate core JavaScript competencies

### Linguistic Tools Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington
• Architected scalable and efficient annotation tooling with Hack and JavaScript to support interactivity between human speech and conversational AI, decreased a 95% error margin in specific broken metrics to roughly 0%
• Retrieved, processed and visualized metrics from MySQL with interactive dashboards
• Utilized Jest and Hack to test full-stack code extensively
• Converted Python applications into JavaScript to visualize results in React web applications
• Provided code reviews for teammates’ React and Hack code to give development feedback

Employed through CoreTechs, Inc

### Software Developer @ Fiduciary Technology Solutions, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Bellevue, Washington
• Debugging existing projects for a FAANG company in Apex to fix loopholes and ensure proper functionality
• Developing algorithms involving data mapping, data structures, data binding from back-end to front-end and SOQL (Salesforce SQL) lookups
• Assisting closely with the QA team to fix code issues in preliminary developer environments prior to code migrations 
• Troubleshooting visibility issues for user profiles, allowing certain users access to specific parts in their Salesforce environment
• Migrating datasets with the usage of Data Loading tools in order to organize and enrich data quality

### Mathematics Tutor @ Wyzant
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Everywhere
• Instructed over 20 students independently upon their request at any time and place in mathematical subjects (including algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics) and web programming  
• Oriented teaching approaches to ensure comfort in sessions and overall customer satisfaction

### Web Developer & Test Specialist @ Prolaera
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Joined during the 500 Startups accelerator to help increase product development velocity which enabled the company’s growth goals
• Developed a web-based analytics tool with the MEAN stack which provided daily, weekly, monthly and yearly user engagement metrics
• Wrote test scripts and conducted product QA procedures to verify product and user experience performance prior to release
• Organized, formatted and validated customer datasets during the migration process

### Batch 21 @ 500 Startups
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Web Design Specialist @ CDK Global
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
• Migrated websites for multiple car manufacturers including GM and Lexus to a higher improved web template  
• Implemented third party vendors via JavaScript to install software into websites including CarcodeSMS, etc.  
• Responded to queries on Salesforce from car dealership managers requesting design modifications for their webpages  
• Created images from scratch using Adobe Photoshop and updating/replacing content already on the page  

Worked under a contract with Apex Systems, Inc. in Bellevue, WA

### Physics Laboratory Teaching Assistant @ Gonzaga University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Spokane, Washington Area
• Assisted a professor in weekly lab sessions for Physics courses on Electricity, Thermodynamics, Magnetism, Light Transfer and General Mechanics.
• Graded students lab reports and provided feedback to ensure understanding and organization of the material covered


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Civil Engineering
Gonzaga University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexmarvick
- Website: https://www.alexmarvick.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/amarvick

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Last updated: 2026-03-29