# Alex Noakes

> Staff Software Engineer @ Collective

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexnoakes

Experienced Software Engineering Leader with a demonstrated history of working in the fintech industry. Skilled in Go, Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, and more. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) focused in Computer Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Work Experience
### Staff Backend Engineer @ Collective
Jan 2024 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Tempo
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Level
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer, Debit+ @ Affirm
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Senior Software Engineer, Payments @ Revance Therapeutics, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Lead Software Engineer @ HintMD
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

### Senior Software Engineer @ HintMD
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Thorn
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Data Engineer @ Goldman Sachs
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York
Technology Analyst, Finance Data Engineering, October 2016 – Present 
• Fixed production data quality issues related to legacy code interaction with new regulatory environments
• Developed and executed complex SQL queries to identify data quality issues and data discrepancies across multiple large Sybase IQ databases 
• Created production data flows to comply with changing regulations using proprietary scripting language similar to Python
• Used test-driven development strategies, with unit tests and integration tests, to improve and refactor giant Java code base 
• Utilized Autosys and a proprietary process monitoring tool to run and monitor multiple daily data consumption jobs
• Created sanity checks to ensure maintenance of high quality data using a variance analysis tool

Technology Analyst, Critical Infrastructure, July – October 2016
• Collaborated with a team of eight to build a process to automate installation of SSL Certificates before expiration
• Harnessed an existing proprietary workflow management tool as a frontend and used a Java REST API as backend 
• Queried Cassandra database to find SSL certificates which were going to expire in the next six months
• Installed SSL Certificates onto production NetScalers using JavaScript/Node.js and the Citrix NITRO API

 Technology Analyst, Credit Risk Technology, May – August 2015
• Developed web search application using AngularJS as front end and Java REST service as back end
• Scraped websites using JSoup and JQuery DOM manipulation to collect results for search application 
• Used concurrent programming techniques to scrape several websites in unison, improving the runtime of the application 
• Consumed and ran big data analytics on logs from Credit Risk applications using Kafka and Elastic Search

### Research Intern @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater Boston Area
Research Intern, Decentralized Information Group, MIT
• Implemented features for Cimba.co, such as in-line video posts and reactive user interface to increase web app usability 
• Assisted in launching demo website Cimba.co, a decentralized micro-blogging web application

### Research Intern @ Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Knoxville, Tennessee Area
Research Intern, National Transportation Research Center	  
• Optimized a large scale 3D printer by improving the algorithm for the path of the extruder


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-noakes-4b734ba4

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Last updated: 2026-04-01