Alex Rivera

Backend engineer who prefers small tools, explicit data, and hosts you can name.

Experience

Platform engineer, independent — 2022–present
Designed YAML-backed catalogs and static publishing pipelines. Replaced a spreadsheet of candidates with files that grep, diff, and review in git.

Services, prior role — 2018–2022
Postgres schemas, background jobs, and Linux hosts. Cut p95 latency on the public search path by indexing the fields people actually filter on.

Skills

Rust, Linux, Postgres, git, Caddy, static site generators.