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Alex Rivers

Alex Rivers

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Senior Backend Engineer at TechCorp | PHP 8.3 & Cloud Systems

📍 San Francisco, CA, United States • 3 connections

About

Passionate software architect with 9+ years designing high-throughput APIs, distributed social graphs, and modern enterprise backend infrastructure. Obsessed with clean code, strict types, and robust relational schemas.

Experience

Senior Backend Engineer

TechCorp Global
Mar 2022 — Present
📍 San Francisco, CA

Architecting core services in PHP 8.3 and MySQL 8.0 handling 15k requests/sec. Decreased API latency by 42% through connection pooling and query optimization.

Backend Software Engineer

FinEdge Labs
Jun 2019 — Feb 2022
📍 New York, NY

Built real-time transaction processing pipeline and microservices using PHP, Docker, and Redis.

Education

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Stanford University

B.S. in Computer Science • Systems Architecture & Algorithms
2014 — 2018

Skills & Endorsements

Modern PHP 8.3
48 endorsements
★ 48
MySQL 8.0 & Performance Tuning
42 endorsements
★ 42
Clean Architecture & DDD
37 endorsements
★ 37
Distributed Systems
31 endorsements
★ 31
Tailwind CSS & Alpine.js
29 endorsements
★ 29
Redis & Caching Strategies
26 endorsements
★ 26

Activity by Alex

Alex Rivers
Senior Backend Engineer at TechCorp | PHP 8.3 & Cloud Systems
14h ago • 🌐
Excited to share our architectural benchmarks on PHP 8.3 with JIT and strict typing! 🚀

By migrating our legacy query orchestration to pure parameterized PDO statements and strict typed Domain DTOs, we've slashed p99 latency from 145ms down to 28ms while maintaining zero memory leaks under 100,000 concurrent synthetic requests.

Modern PHP is extraordinarily fast, robust, and elegant when treated with clean engineering standards.
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