Hi, I'm Alexander Kingsland.

Welcome to my personal website! I'm a software engineer with 5 years of industry experience. I have a passion for creating efficient and user-friendly software solutions. On this website, you will find information about my professional background, projects I have worked on, and just a little bit about me. Scroll down for an overview of my profile!

About

I'm a Seattle based Level II Software Engineer at AWS with five years of industry experience. I'm most intrigued by creating innovative software solutions to tackle challenging real-world problems, with an emphasis in the domains of the finance, automotive, and AI sectors.

Outside of my career ambitions and various software projects when I have some time to kill you can always find me doing one of the five things: Playing the guitar. Exercising. Climbing. Photography. Working with cars.

I'm always willing to connect and have a chat about anything you may find interesting about me or want to know more about, so please reach out via my contact information below!

Experience

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SDE II
  • Team developed and shipped a brand new highly available service for internal/external customers to shift their critical workloads between zonal application replicas.
  • Communicate effectively to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality software on time and on budget.
  • Design and develop resiliency infrastructure with a focus on recovery and availability, resulting in increased customer adoption.
  • Tech Stack: Python, Kotlin, AWS infra stacks, Docker, Bash scripting
September 2022 - Present Seattle, USA
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SDE
  • Designed and development core business logic of the customer facing product, with a strong emphasis on creating user-friendly experiences and user-centered design principles.
  • Responsible for managing and developing internal projects end-to-end, aligned with stakeholders and lead dev teams to deliver these projects on schedule and within budget.
  • Designed web scraping and data extraction systems, utilized these systems in production environments resulting in an increase in customer conversion metrics.
  • Tech Stack: Python, REST API, JavaScript, CSS, HMTL, Network Stack Protocols, Web Packet Tracing, Docker, Postman
June 2021 - September 2022 New York, USA
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SDE Intern
  • Developed a Machine Learning Pipeline which leverages the TensorFlow Framework to predict the maximum rate of the Canadarm2 given an initial load configuration.
  • Collaborated with Engineers of various disciplines to perform rigorous testing of the final pipeline yielding an average prediction accuracy within 10% of the test data.
  • Created documentation and courseware modules covering concepts implemented in the pipeline, held weekly meetings with other engineers to walk through the design.
  • Tech Stack: Python, TensorFlow 1.x/2.x, HDF5, Numpy, MATLAB, Simulink, Matplotlib, Git, Oracle VM, Bash, Paramiko, Git, MS Server Management
April 2019 - August 2020 Toronto, Canada
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SDE Intern
  • Performed stress tests on home security systems, also verified functionality as according to requirement specifications.
  • Setup firmware patches of individual security system components to be used in engineering field trials.
  • Worked alongside a team of engineers in order to create a document to track bugs found from field testing.
  • Tech Stack: MS Excel, Git, Bash, Python, MS Word, Windows, Linux
June 2018 - September 2018 Toronto, Canada
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Solar Engineering Intern
  • Worked with clients daily by visiting buildings to record the dimensions of attic structure, confirm solar panel placement, and sign authorization papers.
  • Optimized the solar panel layout on the client's roof in AutoCAD, the design is approved by a professional engineer and then sent to the builders.
  • Exposure to a start-up environment required taking on tasks involving working with engineers of other disciplines in order to meet company deadlines.
  • Tech Stack: AutoCAD, MS Word, MS Excel, DJI Pro App, DJI Phantom 3 Pro, Dropbox
June 2017 - November 2017 Toronto, Canada

Projects

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IdeasPlus

An application designed to consolidate notes and discussions.

Accomplishments
  • Tools: Swift, OpenAI, AWS
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WhatsOnTheOtherSide

An interactive map that shows the user what is trending on the other side of the world.

Accomplishments
  • Tools:Swift, MapBoxAPI, AWS
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HedgeHog

An investing platform that supports automated trading, historical option chain storage, backtesting strategies.

Accomplishments
  • Tools: Python, Numpy, Pandas, CSV, ibapi, Dropbox
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ProflightPhotography

Started an aerial photography company serving real estate agents and car collectors

Accomplishments
  • Tools: DJI Pro App, DJI Phantom 4 Advanced, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, ibapi, Dropbox
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Student Housing Board App

A web app designed for Landlords and College students dedicated to renting houses with roomates.

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  • Tools:HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, Git, Heroku
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Personal Website

A website intended to showcase my work and interests.

Accomplishments
  • Tools:HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, Git, Heroku
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Skills

Languages & Databases

Python
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
PostgreSQL
Shell Scripting

Libraries

NumPy
Pandas
Selenium
OpenAI
matplotlib

Infrastructure & Frameworks

React
Keras
TensorFlow
Git
AWS

Education

McMaster University

Toronto, Canada

Degree: Bachelors in Computer Science
GPA: 3.7/4.0

    Relevant Courseware:

    • Architecture Design and Principles
    • Network Security
    • Algorithms and Data Structures
    • Database Management Systems
    • Machine Learning

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