Alexandra Knopf

xyious@gmail.com

(479) 721-4352

Experience

2023 - 2025 Workiva (Remote) Senior Software Engineer
  • Implement switch statement in our query language
  • Lead the implementation of SLOs for our team's projects
  • Change support processes
  • Write documentation !
2021 - 2023 Shopstyle (Remote) Senior Java Engineer
  • Design and optimize the prompt to get product descriptions from OpenAI and the application that sends the request and stores the descriptions in our database
  • Develop an application that compares two different product feeds and lead the project to switch product feed providers
  • Implement 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 send package tracking information to patients for prescription home delivery
  • Developed a Python library to read and decrypt passwords for 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
  • Completed InfoSec Ambassador training
2012 - 2014 e­-Cigar GmbH (Neustadt am Rübenberge, Germany) Web Programmer

Miscellaneous

LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/xyious/
Githubhttps://github.com/xyious
Websitehttps://alexandraknopf.com
SkillsC, C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, SQL, NoSQL
TechnologiesNode, Express, Angular, React, GraphQL, Spring, AWS, Azure, Docker