# Alex Zvorygin

> i like working on core software infrastructure. currently working on making the world’s most complex computer systems easier to understand.

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexzvorygin

Computer guy doing infra and distributed systems work. Only looking for work in NYC.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Query Execution
* Designed and delivering the single entrypoint service that will route all queries incoming to Datadog
* I'm architect and project lead for a few other engineers on this project.

### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Java Developer Productivity
- Improved the team's top line metric of Bazel sync times by 43% across two projects.
- Led a project to build a deploy and monitoring system for in-house IntelliJ plugins.

### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Kubernetes Team
- Key contributor in creation of a more secure Kubernetes platform at Stripe. Runs ~1k services on tens of thousands of nodes.
- Designed and implemented the graceful shutdown and traffic draining mechanisms that serve the vast majority of services at Stripe. Golang.
- Created and ran a "gamedays" program which prevented at least one multi-hour public outage.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Manhattan, New York, United States
I didn't really do anything. It's a funny story.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Stripe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Identified and implemented a cost saving measure to autoscale our Presto cluster, saving $700k/yr.
• Reduced Redshift cluster CPU load by 5% by creating popularity based update heuristics for internal dashboards using Go.
• Enhanced our internal analytics platform using Go by reworking query tracking to account for session pooling and improved the reliability of our query killing mechanism.
• Led project to migrate services from directly accessing Redshift to using an HTTP wrapper service.
• Developed a feature for an analytics UI using React to let users upload CSV's to Presto.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Influitive
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Reduced AWS subaccount bill by 30% by writing a spin-up/spin-down script to stop instances on the performance testing environment, using Ruby and Hanami CLI.
• Captured, stored, and replayed web traffic to performance test a replica of the production environment using GoReplay, Docker, and AWS.
• Found 7 and fixed 11 security issues, including two XSS vulnerabilities, one SQL injection vulnerability, one CSV injection vulnerability, and a broken ’Confirm Password’ field.
• Owned a rework of the Edit Profile. Worked with designers, technical leads, and managers to refine tickets and tasks, and then used Ruby on Rails to implement.

### Full Stack Developer Intern @ Rangle.io
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Created mobile frontend using Angular4/Redux/RxJS for JetBlue’s checkin process following Scrum principles.
• Developed MVP features such as the fetching and display of boarding passes.
• Contributed to multiple design and architecture decisions resulting in codebase wide changes.
• Consulted with client-side Product Ownerto maximize business value and delivery speed.

### QA & Release Engineer Intern @ Kik Interactive, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Waterloo, ON
• Took ownership of the quality of multiple server and clientside features of the Kik Messenger App on both iOS and Android.
• Worked with engineering and product teams to estimate QA time for features and develop testing suites.
• Investigated, tracked and triaged crashes, bugs, and their fixes using JIRA, Git, and Fabric.

### Junior Developer, Automated Testing @ League Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Wrote automated test suites alongside backend/frontend/ops teams to co-ordinate testing, coverage, and use of continous integration
Automated functional UI tests covered positive, negative, and edge cases.
Extended the automated testing framework, CasperJS, to better suit the unique challenges and engineering obstacles of the LEAGUE website, and provide a foundation for future automated testers.
Achieved 100% positive coverage with automated tests on the LEAGUE website frontend.


## Education
### Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.S.) in Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020

### OSSD
William Lyon Mackenzie C.I.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/azvorygin
- Website: https://az.rip

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Last updated: 2026-03-23