Hi, I'm Alex 👋🏻

Apella is a technology company for better surgery. We use artificial intelligence, computer vision, and modern communications to improve the most critical aspect of healthcare.

• Lead team of 3 software engineers from Operations/Data Quality in the design, development, and maintenance of a suite of in-house data management applications
• Achieve 80%+ reduction of manual data patching requests, boost customer success team efficiency, reduce human errors and third-party vendor dependency
• Identify technical debts and allocate regular development time for repayment, increase test coverage throughout the code base
• Provide comprehensive technical documentations and architecture diagrams, adopt best practices and highly automated workflow to increase productivity, mentor new junior developers

• Participated in the design, implementation, and maintenance of next-gen metadata-driven Human Capital Management platform using highly scalable Node.js microservices
• Transformed legacy monolithic libraries into AWS-powered microservices that perform compilation, validation, and resolution of metadata documents, serving millions of requests per day
• Contributed to Lifion's data migration effort (Couchbase to AWS Databases) which saved the company more than $75,000 in licensing cost
• Implemented code instrumentation to monitor service health and measure performance using tools such as Kibana, DataDog, and HoneyComb, improving overall system reliability and reducing debugging time
• Organized Lunch and Learn sessions to share knowledge among team members, made contribution towards the larger organization with "Lifion 5% time", mentored co-ops on technical projects