Contact
adc17f@r.postjobfree.com
www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderlin1
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Top Skills
MySQL
Software Engineering
Software Development
Alexander Lin
Stanford CS, Senior Software, early Billing Engineer at SurveyMonkey/Womply
San Francisco, California
Experience
SurveyMonkey
Software Engineer
July 2013 - December 2019 (6 years 6 months)
285 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto
One of the early members (first half dozen or so) of the Billing Team at SurveyMonkey since Billing became it's own official team at SurveyMonkey. Worked on mostly backend layers using primarily Python, Java. Helped increase the companies overall revenue by working on a slew of products in the earlier days of the Billing Team to the more recent days from Invoicing, to New Currencies, Direct Debit, Autobiller and Renewals, Payment Gateways, Mobile Billing, Enterprise, Taxation ... getting to see the company's revenue really grow through the years and through the IPO in 2018. Womply
Software Engineer
June 2012 - June 2013 (1 year 1 month)
188 King Street, San Francisco
Early employee (joined within first 18 months of the company's founding), Engineered the middle and backend layers at Womply using Ruby on Rails and MySQL. Built and architected the core backend system for the company’s billing, invoicing, and payments software. Made the company’s first revenue by using the backend system I wrote to successfully invoice and bill merchants each week that use Womply.
Oracle
Software Engineering Internship
June 2010 - September 2010 (4 months)
Redwood Shores, CA
Worked on enhancing garbage collector algorithms (and taught boss), wrote scripts and programs to parse, highlight, and customize EMACS editor options in Linux as well as write and compile python scripts for source version control. SolFocus
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Software Engineering Internship
June 2009 - September 2009 (4 months)
Mountain View, CA
Enabled the engineering team to make crucial progress toward site management and data analysis of solar/weather data for their solar panel designs, worked to debug, write, manage all of the main Linux machines, unified weather device software, and fed data to central Linux machine, systems coding/engineering, automation and scripting, built Python GUI’s Cisco Systems
Software Engineering Internship
June 2008 - September 2008 (4 months)
San Jose, CA
Worked with VOIP group, tested enhanced features for Cisco’s phones/ routers, taught engineers how to use sophisticated modern automated testing software such as iTest
Stanford University
Student Intern
June 2007 - September 2007 (4 months)
Stanford, CA
Managed websites and database information/input for the Stanford School of Engineering
Music@Menlo
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during 2006 Season August 2006 - 2006 (less than a year)
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during the 2006 season at Music@Menlo titled "Returning to Mozart", one of the world's top-tier chamber music festivals: https://musicatmenlo.org/
Also had the privilege to study with the Grammy award winning and Avery fisher prize winning Emerson String Quartet including David Finckel (also the founder of Music@Menlo) and Philip Setzer
Music@Menlo
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during 2005 Season August 2005 - 2005 (less than a year)
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during the 2005 season at Music@Menlo titled "Beethoven: Center of Gravity", one of the world's top-tier chamber music festivals: https://musicatmenlo.org/
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Also had the privilege to study with Grammy award winning and Avery fisher prize winning Emerson String Quartet including David Finckel (also the founder of Music@Menlo) and Philip Setzer
Music@Menlo
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during 2004 Season August 2004 - 2004 (less than a year)
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during the 2004 season at Music@Menlo titled "Origin/Essence: A Musical Odyssey", one of the world's top-tier chamber music festivals: https://musicatmenlo.org/
Also had the privilege to study with the Grammy award winning and Avery fisher prize winning Emerson String Quartet including David Finckel (also the founder of Music@Menlo) and Philip Setzer
Music@Menlo
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during 2003 Inaugural Season August 2003 - 2003 (less than a year)
Young Performing Artist (Violinist) during the inaugural 2003 season at Music@Menlo titled "The Unfolding of Music", one of the world's top-tier chamber music festivals: https://musicatmenlo.org/ Also had the privilege to study with the Grammy award winning and Avery fisher prize winning Emerson String Quartet including David Finckel (also the founder of Music@Menlo) and Philip Setzer
Education
Stanford University
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science · (2010 - 2012) Stanford University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science · (2006 - 2010) Page 3 of 3