# Julius Alexander IV > aspiring oyster-farmer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/juliusalexanderiv learning learning learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Sofar Ocean Jan 2022 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Sofar Ocean Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 ### Software Engineer @ Enlitic Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Designed and built a PHI-viewing tracker and user activity report generator Built hospital data ingestion libraries, services, and pipelines to process millions of medical records Championed engineering best-practices by building a monitoring platform, pioneering deployment configuration patterns, and promoting unittesting ### Travel @ Traveling Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 I travelled around Asia and the US to do some diving and bouldering. ### Software Engineer @ PlanGrid Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 Unified authentication across all apps, including SSO and OAuth login Identified the need for a more seamless and consistent method of creating product emails, then built a new React-centric emailing tool to validate, preview, and translate HTML emails while leveraging the PlanGrid design system Helped rebuild a feature that replicates state between projects (Workspaces) with a distributed design Designed and built the user activity log backend, with monthly table rollover and ~10ms response times Guided Admin team architecture in async processing patterns, service boundaries, and service resilience ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Los Angeles, California I rewrote Chrome's spellchecker to accommodate multiple languages simultaneously - one of Chrome's oldest feature requests impacting tens of millions of people. Many people across the world speak several languages but Chrome previously only spellchecked one at a time. This meant people had to constantly switch back and forth between spellchecking languages to check their spelling. I rewrote the spellchecking system to eliminate this problem. ### EP Intern @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Kirkland, WA Working with another intern, we developed a fuzz tester for MySQL. I predominantly worked on the actual fuzzer application which would spawn MySQL processes, execute randomly generated commands on them, and watch for crashes, in which case it would collect relevant information pertaining to the crash. ### IT Student Systems Intern @ State Farm Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Working in the Product Solutions department with the Centralized Test ID Team, I developed an Excel macro that pulls information from multiple databases and other spreadsheets and then populates a spreadsheet with that data. In addition to the macro, I formulated the requirements and designed and developed a semi-functional prototype for a new tool to be used by the Test ID Team to better manage their test IDs. Outside of the Product Solutions department, all of the IT Student Interns had the opportunity to develop two websites: one for the IT Student Interns and one for the College Interns. I was a developer and designer for the website and worked collaboratively with the other developers and designers as well as content editors and photographers to meet the site's deadline while still making it as advanced and well-done as possible. ### Android Camp @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Learned about the Android platform and worked in teams to develop an app which implemented picture-taking, the Google Maps API, and geolocation. ### Tech Support @ District 87 Technology Department Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Held a position of leadership over new student workers, helping them get accustomed to the job and teaching them what they need to know and how things are done in the Tech Department. Also directed small task-based teams of student workers on various jobs and problems around the district. Inventoried and provided maintenance for all laptops, desktops, projectors, and printers in the district. Identified and implemented solutions to technological problems facing employees of District 87 whether they be hardware malfunctions, software problems, or network issues. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer & Systems Engineering and Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Bloomington High School Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/julius-alexander-iv-95a56061 --- Source: https://flows.cv/juliusalexanderiv JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/juliusalexanderiv/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22