Alex Rivera

Alex Rivera

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Staff Full-Stack Architect

Building resilient distributed systems and high-fidelity web applications.

San Francisco, CA
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08Years Experience
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Professional Focus

Building resilient distributed systems and high-fidelity web applications. 10+ years scaling cloud infrastructure and leading engineering teams across fintech and AI.

Staff Full-Stack Architect

Case Studies

Flagship Case Study
AuraOS

AuraOS

Live Case Study

Role: Principal Architect ยท Jan 2024 โ€” Present

Autonomous agentic desktop environment processing 1M+ daily LLM interactions with sub-50ms latency. Built with Next.js 15, WebAssembly, and Rust.

Next.jsTypeScriptRustWASM

Additional Contributions

Veloce
Veloce
Live

Institutional-grade decentralized exchange protocol with 50,000 TPS on-chain matching engine.

Lead Protocol Engineer
SolidityReactGraphQL
Nexus Design System
Nexus Design System
Live

Enterprise design token engine powering UI for 40+ engineering teams, reducing frontend cycles by 65%.

Staff UI Engineer
FigmaTailwindStorybook

Experience

Feb 2023 โ€” PresentCurrent

Principal Systems Architect

Stellar Cloud

  • Architected global edge caching layer, reducing international latency by 45%.
  • Led 24 engineers across core platform and infrastructure teams.
  • Spearheaded zero-trust security migration for 500+ microservices.
Aug 2020 โ€” Jan 2023

Staff UI Engineer

Hyperion Labs

  • Built high-performance financial data grids rendering 100k+ rows at 60 FPS.
  • Established design tokens and automated accessibility CI testing across all web products.
Apr 2018 โ€” Jul 2020

Senior Software Engineer

Pulse Analytics

  • Designed real-time event streaming pipeline processing 10GB/s of telemetry.
  • Authored open-source React visualization libraries with over 50k weekly downloads.