Alex Williams

Alex Williams has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. They started working as an Algorithmic Researcher at Northeastern University in February 2019, where they focused on studying high-dimension complex analytic singularities and creating algorithms for finding beta invariants. They then joined BetterYou as a Backend Engineer in September 2020, where they worked on expanding and refactoring a serverless Node.js GCP backend, reducing calculation requirements significantly. In September 2021, Alex moved to RentRedi as a Software Engineer, where they contributed to backend development, handled payment processors, and improved reliability and scaling by re-architecting the ETL pipeline. Currently, Alex is working at RentRedi as a Data Engineer, starting in May 2023.

Alex Williams attended St. John's College from 2022 to 2026 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Prior to that, from 2019 to 2020, Alex attended Flatiron School and completed a Software Engineering Immersive program. From 2016 to 2018, Alex attended Bard High School Early College Queens and earned an Associate of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences. Additionally, from 2018 to 2019, Alex studied at Northeastern University and pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering.

Alex has also obtained several certifications, including Ruby Basic and Ruby Intermediate from HackerRank in September 2020, DevOps Foundations, Software Design: Code and Design Smells, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) from LinkedIn in August and July 2020, respectively, and Javascript Basic and Python Basic from HackerRank in May 2020.