Alex Pricope
Software Engineer
About Me#
Results-driven, dedicated engineer with 15+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise solutions across diverse industries including fintech, gaming, e-commerce, and telecommunications.
- Polyglot engineer comfortable with C#, Go, and picking up new languages as needed
- Strong focus on performance optimization and best practices
- Experience building high-throughput, mission-critical systems processing millions of requests daily
- Proven ability to thrive in dynamic, multicultural, and distributed team environments
Technical Skills#
Languages: C#, Go, PowerShell, Bash
Cloud: AWS (Lambda, EC2, SQS, SNS, S3), Azure
Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, DynamoDB
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform
Messaging: RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS, NServiceBus
Observability: Grafana, Kibana, Datadog, Sentry
Experience#
Leading engineering efforts for enterprise solutions.
.NETKubernetesDockerSQL ServerMicroservices
Backend team for Football Head Coach game, serving hundreds of thousands of players.
- Introduced logging library adopted by the entire backend guild
- Reduced TeamCity build pipeline from 20 to 5 minutes
- Implemented distributed locking mechanism using Redis
.NETKubernetesMySQLRedisRabbitMQAWS
Mission-critical payment services processing ~60 million payments per month. Cloud-agnostic stack deployed across multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters, serving tier-1 banks worldwide.
- Implemented payment processing services using CQRS pattern in Go
- Migrated legacy Java services to modern Go implementations
- Mentored new team members and conducted engineering interviews
GoJavaKubernetesCockroachDBElasticsearchNATS
Distributed team supporting 20-30 backend services for image processing pipeline. Primarily serverless AWS architecture.
- Designed integration service with Cimpress/Vistaprint for global fulfillment
- Built Slack bot automating daily routines, adopted by all engineering teams
.NETAWS LambdaSNS/SQSSQL ServerTerraform
High-profile services for Soccer product handling hundreds of concurrent real-time matches. Key contributor to Same Game Multi—first in the industry to offer real-time in-play betting.
- Introduced binary message compression for cross-continent communication
- Implemented AWS auto-scaling based on predicted traffic
.NETAWS EC2KafkaRabbitMQ
Earlier Roles (2010-2018)
Development of internal trading and risk management systems for the Global Markets division.
.NETSQL ServerWPF
IoT connectivity platform for enterprise mobile device management.
.NETAzureSQL Server
Financial services platform processing thousands of loan applications daily. Built real-time decisioning and fraud detection systems.
.NETNServiceBusSQL ServerRabbitMQ
E-commerce ticketing platform for Irish entertainment events.
.NETSQL Server
Projects#
Toolspot.io
A privacy-focused collection of 41+ developer utilities. UUID generators, timestamp converters, JSON/XML/YAML editors, cron builders, network tools, and more. All tools run locally or with ephemeral server-side processing—no tracking.
GoGinViperRedisReactViteTailwind CSSOpenTelemetry
Services#
I’m available for consulting and contract work in the following areas:
Backend Development High-performance services in Go or .NET, microservices architecture, API design
Cloud Architecture AWS and Azure solutions, serverless architecture, Kubernetes deployments
Performance Optimization Profiling, bottleneck identification, latency reduction for high-throughput systems
DevOps & Automation CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, monitoring and observability
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