Alex Rivera
Professional Summary
Software engineer with 6 years of experience building accessible web products for commerce and fintech teams. Comfortable owning features end to end, from discovery through release, and known for turning ambiguous requirements into shipped, measurable improvements.
Work Experience
Lead engineer for the checkout experience serving 2M monthly shoppers.
- Cut checkout abandonment by 18% by restructuring the payment step and adding inline validation
- Introduced a shared component library adopted by four product teams
- Mentored three engineers through their first feature ownership cycle
Built order management tooling for the operations team.
- Reduced order dispute handling time by 35% with a rebuilt triage queue
- Migrated a legacy reporting view to a typed API without customer-facing downtime
Delivered public-sector service pages with strict accessibility requirements.
- Brought 12 service pages to WCAG 2.1 AA conformance
Education
- Dean's List, four semesters
Skills
Projects
Community-sourced accessibility map for public transport stops.
- Used by three local advocacy groups to file accessibility reports