Alexander Ackerman
I love studying complex systems and trying to understand how they work, be they markets, cloud native technologies, or weather systems (just for fun). I am currently seeking opportunties to learn and tackle fresh problems.
Work Experience
Software Engineering Intern
- Completed a data analytics project using Little’s Law to estimate required deployment sizes needed to serve Call of Duty Warzone’s 50 million+ players. Estimates led to reducing CPU resource allocations, creating savings of approx $100k
- Implemented multiple new features on the ‘Monitoring Stack’ - a distributed system of ~10 Python microservices built with Flask and Click - which monitored all the web services enabling Call of Duty multiplayer products and automatically alerts engineers and creats Jira tickets in response to any alerts/failures
- Designed, built, and deployed a Python webservice built using Tornado Web Server into production. This service performed end-to-end integration tests on the ‘Monitoring Stack’ by simulating failures/alerts to one part of the system and verifying other parts of the system took the correct automated actions within a time limit
- Developed and released an upstream Helm chart (a GoLang Template) which allowed internal customers to easily add a monitoring agent to their Kubernetes deployments, saving at least 2-3 hours of developer work for deploying any new service
Lead SDR & Digital Marketing Specialist
- Venzee is a SaaS startup working to automate the E-commerce product data supply chain
- Led a team of 8 Sales Dev Reps, including supporting their sales training and skill development
- Wrote Python scripts using BeautifulSoup and Pandas used to collect, process, and score 50k leads leading to a 5% improvement in our demo-booking rate
- Planned and executed several projects to clean and organize our sales and marketing data from Hubspot and other sources
- Ran a content marketing campaign to improve Venzee’s SEO for high value keywords
Project Director/Analyst
- Wrote content for 10+ country specific editions of the Healthcare & Life Science Review, published on PharmaBoardroom.com
- Worked on and led small two and three person teams to conduct interviews and sell advertising
- Researched healthcare policies, biotech technology platforms, and pharma company business models in preparation for interviews with C-suite executives and to write published content
- Was responsible for revenue generation via advertising sales across the full sales funnel from lead generation via cold calls to closing. Best year was 2016 with over USD 500k in sales
Projects
- A single layer neural network that classifies complete tic tac toe games by winner/draw
- Functional React front-end, with all ML calculations coded in raw Python with Numpy
- Python code ran within the users browser using Mozilla backed Pyodide (Python compiled to WebAssembly) - no back-end required!
- Developed a Javac compiler plugin that modifies programs during the compilation process to log specific information about the objects in the runtime environment