About Me
A brief overview of my professional journey, core skills, and background.
Hello! I am Alex Carter, a Senior Software Architect and Engineer with over 8 years of industry experience. I build secure, performant, and reliable backend services that power modern digital experiences.
Throughout my career, I've worked with fast-growing startups and enterprises alike, helping them scale database clusters, optimize network request routing, and automate multi-region container deployments.
My engineering philosophy is simple: write maintainable, testable code, minimize system complexity, and always focus on low network overhead and high efficiency.
Go / Rust 95%
Linux & Kernel Tuning 90%
Distributed Systems 88%
Cloud (AWS / GCP / K8s) 92%
Professional Experience
Lead the migration of a monolithic API cluster into Rust-based microservices, reducing AWS infrastructure costs by 40% and improving API throughput.
Designed and maintained core message broker services handling over 100M daily events with highly optimized Go worker pools.
Implemented RESTful APIs, optimized SQL index queries, and integrated secure payment gateways with strict transaction management.