Alexandra Knopf

xyious@gmail.com

(479) 721-4352

github.com/xyious linkedin.com/in/xyious/ alexandraknopf.com

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
  • Technologies used: Go, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, ANTLR, GraphQL, React, Spring, Springboot, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Github Actions, AWS
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 !
  • Technologies used: Java, Kotlin, Perl, Python, Hybernate, Spring, Springboot, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS, ChatGPT
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
  • Technologies used: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Typescript, Kotlin, Python, Angular, NodeJS, Express, React, Spring, Springboot, Informix, DB2, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ansible, AWS
2012 - 2014 e­-Cigar GmbH (Neustadt am Rübenberge, Germany) Web Programmer