Alexandra Knopf

Experience

2023 - 2025	Workiva (Remote)	Senior Software Engineer
Implemented new switch statement syntax, ANTLR4 definition and Kotlin runtime handler in our graph database query language to allow simplifying of customer's complex queries Developed standards and best practices for GraphQL endpoints and migrated OpenAPI endpoints to GraphQL for Spring app in Kotlin Led the implementation of SLOs and collaborated with the infrastructure team to simplify and improve the process for other teams Improved support processes in two teams to better document and track customer issues and their resolution

2021 - 2023	Shopstyle (Remote)	Senior Java Engineer
Designed and optimized the prompt to get product descriptions from OpenAI and the application that sends the request and stores the descriptions in our database Developed an application that compares two different product feeds and led the project to switch product feed providers Implemented a feature to parse additional fields in retailer product feeds to normalize data across retailers Merged code to production in my first week on the job !

2015 - 2021	Walmart Global Technology (Bentonville, Arkansas)	Analyst Software Engineer
Created a microservice to send drug information to our pharmacy application's front end Implemented a feature to automatically send tracking information to patients for prescription home delivery Developed a Python library to support automated password rotations Implemented a Continuous Deployment pipeline with unit and integration tests Refactored code of 4 closely related projects to remove duplicate code and replaced C code with C++ in key functions to increase performance (by 30%) and stability

2012 - 2014	e­-Cigar GmbH (Neustadt am Rübenberge, Germany)	Web Programmer

Skills

Languages	C, C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, SQL, NoSQL
Technologies	AWS, Azure, Docker, GraphQL, Spring, Node, Express, Angular, React