# Alex Matevish > Engineer at Asana Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alexmatevish ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer (Backend Frameworks) @ Asana Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Technical Lead (Infrastructure) @ Asana Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Senior Software Engineer (Product) @ Airbnb Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area At Airbnb I worked on a hybrid Product / Platform team that was responsible for the post-booking experience of guests and hosts. During my brief tenure at Airbnb I worked on the following: - Migrated several key product features (Wishlists, Reservation Details Page) out of our legacy monolith, decreasing request latencies by 250%+ and increasing product iteration speed - Launched refund notifications for guests resulting in 60k/yr reduction in customer support contacts. Through consultation with designers, was able to ship weeks faster in wake of Covid-19 by using a modified design which leveraged existing code and systems - Launched features spanning multiple teams allowing guests in strategic markets to comply with local Visa requirements - Modernized and migrated 4 key services to shared on-call, increasing reliability and freeing up product engineering resources - Managed team's on-call scheduling and was responsible for incident management and reporting to leadership ### Staff Software Engineer (Platform) @ Granular Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area At Granular I worked on a variety of products and teams including Granular's Operational Resource Management and financial offerings, their integrations with the John Deere Operation Center, and building out Granular's next-generation service platform. - Architected and implemented several of the core services for Granular's service platform including a distributed access control system enabling flexible product design and efficient fine grained (attribute-level) access control, drawing inspiration from the Apache Shiro project - Successfully built and launched a data visualization product utilizing OS GIS tools to visualize profitability of parts of a farmer's various fields from within the John Deere Operations center (with millions of acres being processed yearly), as part of a key strategic partnership with John Deere - Part of the initial team developing our financial product offering, which enabled customers to have a deeper understanding of their farm and operational profitability. Successful feature launches included user-customized pivot tables and reporting - Core contributor / maintainer of many libraries and services backing Granular's platform efforts - One of several engineers tasked with determining best practices and technologies for service platform buildout ### Web Development Consultant @ Realm Inc Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area At Realm I was the technical lead in support of the marketing and content teams. - Built and launched multiple production web applications with over 800k monthly visitors, primarily a custom CMS (Ruby on Rails 4, Contentful, ElasticSerach, PostgreSQL) to support the content team's developer outreach efforts (Realm Academy) - Migrated the existing website off of a Jekyll-based static site increasing flexibility and decreasing turnaround time - Optimized rendering and content delivery time to improve engagement and reduce computing costs - Worked closely with head of web marketing to manage dependencies and deliverable timelines ### Sr. Software Engineer (Search, Platform) @ Tenor Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area – Architected and implemented real-time trending search, allowing users to see the hottest content trending in their country – Architected and implemented "Did you mean" feature, decreasing the time from search to share – Internationalized search for over 30 languages, from Albanian to Vietnamese (never got around to Zulu unfortunately) – Built the company's Slack integration from the ground up, now one of Slack's top apps (/gif / /gifs) – Added various capabilities to our in-house ORM library, accelerating feature development – Worked with partners advising the development of new APIs – Built several features into our CMS to help increase the productivity (and maintain the sanity) of our content team ### Software Engineer @ Camio Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area At Camio, a Greylock backed startup specializing in intelligent cameras, I was one of the first engineering hires with an emphasis on both scaling backend infrastructure and feature development. - Helped establish and improve the engineering culture, following common best practices for Java and web development - Architected a system to account for clock skew when aggregating feeds from multiple cameras with unreliable clocks - Headed a successful project to allow for cameras to live-stream cross-platform using WebRTC - Built libraries and tools to aid team members and decrease development time for features ### Software Engineer Intern @ Rackspace, the Open Cloud Company Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 – Worked with a small team on an R&D project seeking to use machine learning to preemptively scale up deployments before a large traffic spike ### Web Application Developer @ Affective Cognitive Lab Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Berkeley, CA – Built a web application which enabled quicker selection of visual stimulus images for fMRI studies leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-matevish-843a2356 --- Source: https://flows.cv/alexmatevish JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alexmatevish/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12