# Alex V.

> Software Engineer at Carver Edison

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexv

Experienced backend software engineer, with some additional knowledge of frontend, Android, fraud/abuse investigation and mitigation, and machine learning.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer – Frontend Lead @ Carver Edison
Jan 2022 – Present | Remote

### Owner @ Rocket Gifts LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2024
Just a side project. A company making novelty items aimed at bachelorette parties and other social gatherings

### Software Engineer @ Shef
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Full-stack, all typescript: Node.js backend, React frontend. GraphQL (Apollo) API. Postgres DB.

Achievements:
* Cut search and main product page load times by 30-40%.
* Cleaned up a spaghetti-code legacy checkout page into something more maintainable. (Doesn’t sound like much, but the old page was completely incomprehensible, to the point where > 50% of changes to it introduced bugs. Which is quite bad when it’s the checkout page. One of my coworkers described the improvement as “one of the best changes that’s been made here”.)

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, CA
Full-stack: working on Java backend, frontend (Typescript-based Google-proprietary web framework), and Android projects.

Achievements:
* Designed and built an extension to a subscriptions lifecycle service, to allow subscriptions to be sponsored by third-party business partners. This system has processed millions of sponsored subscriptions without incident.
* Lead the response to an attempted fraud attack against a promotional offer, preventing the loss of $170,000. Designed changes to the promotional system which have successfully stopped any subsequent attacks from succeeding.

### Software Developer @ Palo Alto Software
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Eugene, Oregon Area
Full-stack: worked on Java backend and React/Redux frontend features.

Achievements:
* Reduced page load times by 75-90% on the most common pages by optimizing SQL database queries.
* Improved IMAP message ingestion speed in an email product by 133x, reducing 90th percentile new-user onboarding time from many hours to a few minutes.

### Software Engineer Intern @ FabTrol Systems Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Eugene, Oregon Area


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Science
University of Oregon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avonbrandenfels
- Website: https://stackoverflow.com/users/5602521/alex-von-brandenfels
- GitHub: https://github.com/Sweater-Baron

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Last updated: 2026-03-20