Alex Wennerberg

Experience

Amazon — Twitch San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer Aug 2024–Jan 2026 Software Engineer Aug 2020–Aug 2024

Architected program management service for seven million affiliates, partners, developers and DJs.
Established engineering practices for twelve-person Payouts team: architecture, documentation, testing, and deployment.
Led engineering team to change revenue model for Twitch partners, improving revenue share and sentiment.
Designed onboarding for Twitch DJ program, introducing 40,000 DJ channels to Twitch.
Directed creator fraud mitigation through identity verification of thousands of affiliates.
Built internal Go libraries: currency handling, calendar package, and logging middleware.
Audited all (hundreds) of open source dependencies across Twitch code base, led project for consolidation and deprecation.
Mentored four junior engineers through promotion.

Cloudbakers (now 66 Degrees) Chicago, IL

Software Engineer May 2017 – Jul 2020

Built file migration tool in Python, migrating millions of files across hundreds of users.
Designed and built ETL jobs and data warehouses for several clients.
Created Kubernetes architecture for a machine learning video processing pipeline.
Built custom G Suite tools, including an open source CLI for Google's APIs.

flounder.online — Small web hosting service with 1,000+ users. Solo developer and sysadmin for 6 years.
fishbb — Lightweight web forum designed for self-hosting.
rrdmetrics — Lightweight metrics library for monitoring web services.
Tech blogger at alexwennerberg.com.
2x Speaker at TIAT (San Francisco) and SUNY Purchase.