Alexis Hevia

Alexis Hevia

Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience

About Me

Get to know me

Hi. My name is Alexis Hevia. I am a software engineer with 10 years of experience doing web development. During my career, I have worked with different sized companies: from early stage startups all the way to fortune 500 companies. I have also worked on multiple roles (frontend, backend, full-stack, tech lead), and different stacks and languages (RoR, Python, MERN, Go, etc).

The one common factor is that I always try to generate as much value as possible for the client I am working with, and I try to find the right balance between elegance and simplicity in the codebases I interact with.

I am a bit of a digital nomad, so I only work with companies that support fully remote contributors.

Experience

LoopTree

Technical Lead

Remote

2024 – Present

Offered consulting services for major media companies like Fox Broadcasting Company.

Work included: enforcing restrictions based on user's location and entitlements, placing users into the optimal live stream for their device, and optimizing latency in services critical for the video start flow.

I was part of the team in charge of optimizing services to handle Super Bowl LVII (6+ million concurrent users).

X-Team

Senior Back End Developer

Remote

2016 – 2024

Work included: refactoring a NodeJS mono-repo into multiple Golang microservices, re-designing cache strategies, introducing mechanisms to deal with traffic spikes and network pressure, among others.

I was part of the team in charge of optimizing services to handle Super Bowl LIV (3+ million concurrent users).

Branded Crate

Frontend Developer

Remote

2016

As a frontend developer on a software dev shop, I worked closely with the UX team to build beautiful, usable, and robust interfaces - for both web and mobile.

ubiqua.me

Technical Lead

Panama City, Panama

2015 – 2016

Ubiqua was a small startup with a rapidly-growing client base. I helped the team standardize development processes, improve code quality, and design a new architecture - all while keeping a growing user base well served.

Admios

Full Stack Developer

Panama City, Panama

2012 – 2014

Worked as a full stack developer for RightScale, a multi-cloud management company. Tech stack: Ruby on Rails for the backend and BackboneJS for the frontend

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