Christopher Alexander
Chief Executive Officer Founder at Upwork
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Alexander is a CEO-founder and full stack software engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building scalable, cloud-native business applications and platforms. He has led architecture and product efforts from prototype to production—driving a 300% performance improvement and 10x capacity uplift during an AWS migration and growing retail partnerships rapidly for an e-commerce SaaS. Comfortable across frontend, backend, and serverless stacks (React, Node.js, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Stripe integrations), he blends technical design with product and stakeholder leadership. As a freelance architect he delivered PCI- and SCA-compliant payment systems and high-availability serverless solutions, evidencing strong security and reliability focus. Christopher pairs a BS in Computer Engineering and AWS Solutions Architect certification with a pragmatic emphasis on reusing strategic technology assets to maximize ROI. He frequently bridges engineering and business needs, mentoring teams while iterating quickly on customer-facing features.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (47)
typescript10
typescript-definitions10
dts10
terraform-module10
aws-lambda9
aws9
lambda9
react9
serverless9
csv8
material-ui8
react-components8
xlsxwriter8
exceljs7
worksheet7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
clalexander/clientele
Jul 2023 - Jun 2024
Framework to build HTTP REST API clients
Contributions:7 PRs, 17 pushes, 9 branches in 11 months
restrest-api
clalexander/lerna-ci-test
Aug 2023 - Mar 2024
Repository to test the Lerna CI tools
Contributions:19 PRs, 63 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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