Alexander Stokes

Software engineer focused on cloud architecture, systems integration, full-stack development, and legacy modernization. Experience spans AWS infrastructure, CI/CD design, logistics applications, and payment-processing APIs. Utilizes industry standard cybersecurity practices in combination with over a decade of experience in system-level design. Proven track record in deployment safety, operational visibility, and long-term software maintainability. GitHub https://github.com/stokes91

Professional Experience

Skills

AWS ALB S3 EC2 Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Simple Storage Service (S3) Application Load Balancer (ALB) Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Identity and Access Management (IAM) Systems Manager (SSM) Secrets Manager Security Token Service (STS) CloudFormation CodePipeline AWS SDK

DevOps & Release Engineering Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Git GitHub GitHub Actions Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment automation blue/green deployments canary releases release management immutable artifacts health checks rollback signed commits and tags

Software Architecture Systems design cloud architecture distributed systems full-stack development modular architecture service isolation systems integration legacy modernization asynchronous programming developer tooling workflow automation

Programming Languages & Runtimes TypeScript JavaScript Python Rust C++ Bash Deno CSS JSON C# .NET HTML

Web Development & APIs REST APIs HTTP/HTTPS WebSockets API design third-party integrations server-side rendering (SSR) responsive web design reusable UI components design systems browser APIs JSON Schema PDF generation

Identity & Application Security Authentication authorization Single Sign-On (SSO) identity provider (IdP) integration Microsoft identity integration Google Workspace OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect (OIDC) PKCE JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) least privilege secure session management secrets management CSRF protection XSS prevention Content Security Policy (CSP) Lacework

Cryptography & Release Integrity OpenPGP GnuPG (GPG) YubiKey hardware-backed signing digital signatures SHA-256 artifact integrity verification software supply chain security

Data & Storage Redis key-value storage caching replication persistence object storage data modeling data migration optimistic concurrency control atomic updates idempotency data consistency audit trails

Infrastructure & Networking Linux Linux systemd process management IPv4 CIDR subnet planning IP address allocation routing load balancing security groups target groups launch templates TLS

Cloud Operations & Reliability Cloud migration infrastructure provisioning configuration management operational visibility health monitoring troubleshooting high availability failover failure recovery cloud cost management

AI Engineering & Automation Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) OpenAI API Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) prompt engineering structured outputs source-grounded responses AI workflow orchestration human-in-the-loop review AI-assisted development automated code review enterprise AI adoption AI governance

Testing & Quality Assurance Unit testing integration testing regression testing security testing automated testing test coverage mocking concurrency testing deterministic testing type checking Deno test Python unittest

Data Visualization & Multimedia D3.js SVG HTML Canvas interactive visualization image processing animation GIF encoding Web Audio API MediaRecorder FFmpeg PDF.js

Logistics & Business Applications Third-Party Logistics (3PL) warehouse systems integration inventory management driver check-in systems barcode scanner integration billing systems multi-contract billing payment-processing APIs Point of Sale (POS) financial ledgers audit reporting support for SOX-compliant workflows

Algorithms & Barcode Systems Data structures and algorithms QR codes Data Matrix Aztec codes barcode encoding and decoding Reed–Solomon error correction Galois fields character encoding Unicode UTF-8 raster rendering

Embedded Systems Arduino hardware/software integration real-time clocks (RTC) WWVB time synchronization LED matrix displays signal diagnostics

Education