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

2023 - Present
Principal Cloud Architect
Aether Tech Systems

Lead the migration of a monolithic API cluster into Rust-based microservices, reducing AWS infrastructure costs by 40% and improving API throughput.

2020 - 2023
Senior Software Engineer
Vortex Labs

Designed and maintained core message broker services handling over 100M daily events with highly optimized Go worker pools.

2018 - 2020
Backend Developer
Nova Software Group

Implemented RESTful APIs, optimized SQL index queries, and integrated secure payment gateways with strict transaction management.