Alex Pang

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As a software engineer with experience in building full-stack applications, I am passionate about leveraging technology to drive business outcomes. Throughout my career, I have delivered impactful results by reducing processing time, saving stakeholders significant amounts of time, and improving system reliability. My proficiency in a variety of programming languages and tools, including Java, Spring, React.js, and C#, allows me to tackle complex problems and deliver innovative solutions. I enjoy working on AWS projects in my spare time and aspire to grow as a cloud engineer. Additionally, my background in teaching and business allows me to effectively communicate technical concepts to stakeholders. I am committed to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with the latest technologies and I believe I can learn anything.

Experience

Software Engineer II

Principal Financial Group
  • Created full stack application to automate process changes in 401k services which saved stakeholders over two weeks of work a month in an app that is run daily by utilizing Java, Spring, React.js and Typescript and unit tested with JUnit and Jest
  • Reduced processing time of activating/deactivating services from a weeklong manual process to an hour-long automated process for a load of 40,000 or more contracts
March 2023 - Present

Software Engineer I

Principal Financial Group
  • Automated custom document creation by designing an application to allow the upload of documents and preview functionality by creating and consuming REST endpoints, leveraging event driven microservice architecture, and coding queue changes to save business partners three days per custom document
  • Designed custom multiselect dropdown component with checkboxes to improve accessibility and handle large name options with React.js, CSS, and HTML
June 2022 - March 2023

Software Engineer Intern

Cerner Corporation
  • Built smoke test page in Ruby and Rails to test api services
  • Created tooling to remove special regex characters from Business Objects onboarding
June 2021 - August 2021

Software Engineer Intern

Direct Supply
  • Developed, tested, and released to production features for eCommerce platform using C# and React.js
  • Created application and unit tests in C# / .NET Core to purge old patient data
  • Practiced Agile and Scrum in two-week sprints on a team of four interns and one Tech Lead
  • Closed twice the amount of system health tickets than any other development team
  • Utilized functional and automatic testing to catch faulty code and fix problems
June 2020 - September 2020

Personal Projects

AWS Cloud Resume Website

alexanderpang.net
  • Developed a static website for my resume on Amazon S3 and secured it using CloudFront, while leveraging it as a CDN
  • Implemented API Gateway and AWS Lambda with AWS CDK for Go to write and read from DynamoDB, resulting in the creation of a visitor counter for my website
  • Delivered Infrastructure as code with AWS SAM CLI templates to provision and manage AWS resources and used GitHub Actions to update my Serverless Application Model and front-end website
March 2023

Education

University of Iowa

Master's Degree
Computer Science

GPA: 3.20

May 2022

University of Iowa

BA
Computer Science

GPA: 3.56

May 2021

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

My Home

I currently live in Salt Lake City, Utah with my girlfriend Emersen and our two good pups Piper and Moose. I like hiking this beautiful state and pretending to be an amateur photographer for Emersen. (She provides the artistic view. I provide the button press).