# Alex Woods

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Atlanta Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexwoods

Software Engineer in Atlanta, GA.

Passionate about infrastructure and system design.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Makeswift
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Makeswift
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Built billing system.
- Built site templates feature.
- Responsible for uptime of customer’s sites, resolving outages and improving system reliability.
- Increased CI/CD pipeline speed by ~70%.

### SRE @ Ware2Go
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Initiated and led change of release process, increasing the rate of deployments from once every 3 weeks to near daily.
- Implemented reliability features — circuit breaking (in Kafka Streams), connection pooling (in Node.js), and monitoring and alerting (Datadog).
- Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for microservices and a frontend monorepo.

### Software Engineer @ Ware2Go
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Atlanta Area
- Led the development of two Kafka Streams apps, playing a key role in the delivering of major product delivery on time.
- Assumed responsibility for Kafka Connect and managing the replication of data from PostgreSQL into Kafka.
- Implemented a new flow for order file parsing using the Celery distributed task queue.
- Helped manage an offshore team that allowed us to get features out with no outages.

### Software Engineer @ Vlipsy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
- Built the REST API that became the foundation of the company, using Serverless and Node.js.
- Added authorization features to iOS & Android mobile apps using React Native.
- Designed and implemented a git-workflow for the engineering team.
- Was involved in all technical aspects of the company.

### Software Engineer @ Bloveit
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Atlanta Area
- Designed and implemented software that decreased recommendation time (a core operations KPI) by 92%.
- Designed the database schema which now holds all of the company's data.
- Designed and implemented a GraphQL API with Node.js.
- First engineering hire.

### Intern @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Dearborn, MI
I worked as an intern with data scientists on Ford's Connected Vehicle Analytics team. I worked with CAN bus data, through the lens of better designing user interfaces.

### IT Intern @ Verizon
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Orangeburg, NY
On the IT Fraud Team, using Python, R, SQL, as well as machine learning tools


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexhwoods
- Website: http://alexhwoods.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22