“I had the pleasure of working with Alex at Lyft and was consistently impressed by his technical strengths, clear communication, and collaborative mindset. One project that stands out involved tackling mileage abuse within the Lyft Express Drive program. Alex played a key role in building systems that helped identify these patterns and enforce smarter safeguards. His technical contributions were sharp and pragmatic, and he consistently approached the problem with a product-aware mindset—balancing impact, fairness, and scalability. He also communicated clearly across teams, making it easy to align on goals and move quickly. Beyond the work itself, Alex brought a positive, can-do energy to every interaction. He was approachable, reliable, and made cross-functional work both productive and enjoyable. I’d gladly work with him again and highly recommend him.”
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I’m a former software engineer at Lyft. After a decade+ of building and scaling consumer…
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See projectA web app for teachers and students to easily share assigned readings and have discussion about each individual line of the text.
• Exercised Ruby on Rails and JavaScript to create a platform for students to interact with text in a collaborative setting
• Used tactful-tokenizer gem to access each individual line of the text and provide a commentable area, as well as Oauth2 to authenticate in users from their gmail or facebook accounts.
• Designed and edited the front end using…A web app for teachers and students to easily share assigned readings and have discussion about each individual line of the text.
• Exercised Ruby on Rails and JavaScript to create a platform for students to interact with text in a collaborative setting
• Used tactful-tokenizer gem to access each individual line of the text and provide a commentable area, as well as Oauth2 to authenticate in users from their gmail or facebook accounts.
• Designed and edited the front end using Bootstrap to give a professional feel for student and teachers -
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See projectA web app that facilitates straightforward information about repository files and informs code reviewers as to the relevance of a certain file, so they have pinpointed knowledge on which files are pertinent to review.
• Returned all public repositories belonging to a user and all relevant repository statistics using Ruby on Rails and Github API
• Utilized past activity on repository to render a chart that shows the level of commits that were made to each file -
Restaurant-To-Room
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See projectAn online delivery platform for ordering food, built with the MEAN stack.
• Implemented a restaurant search engine and online delivery platform using MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node
• Built safe encryption of passwords using Bcrypt to ensure that their confidential information would not be exposed
• Leveraged MongoDB database to save user information, including account credentials and past orders
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Central Khmer
Limited working proficiency
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