Alex Vaccaro

About Alex

Experience

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   Ezoic · Full-time

   • Software Engineer

     Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs·Current

     - Full stack software development with Vue, Typescript, and Golang

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   Career Break

   • Health and well-being

     Feb 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos·Los Angeles, California·Current

     After a semester at USC, the pandemic hit, and with it came a lot of uncertainty. I suspended my education and spent some time close to hoping, helping my family through it all.

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   Sierra Tucson · Full-time

   • Nursing Assistant

     Feb 2019 - Jul 2019 · 6 mos·Tucson, Arizona, United States

     - Act as the “front line” of patient care at residential and hospital units - Facilitate and assist with medications and treatment

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   Self-employed

   • Cryptocurrency Trader

     Jun 2017 - Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo

     - Implement software to perform arbitrage trading on new exchanges - Leverage web-crawling and social media trends to predict price performance - Research pricing trends and underlying technologies to determine risk and potential Skills: Python (Programming Language)

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   7 mos

   • Chief Technology Officer

     Jan 2017 - May 2017 · 5 mos

     - Responsible for all technical roles, from IT, to software development - Implemented JIRA across the company for business workflows; maintained JIRA for multiple teams - Implemented proprietary software system for loan prediction and analysis - Maintained computer equipment and hardware across 20+ employees Skills: Information Technology · Infrastructure · Python · Process Improvement · Microsoft Azure · Leadership

   • Technical Contractor

     Nov 2016 - Dec 2016 · 2 mos

     - Implemented JIRA for business workflow management company-wide, and trained employees in its use Skills: Jira

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   MyCase · Full-time

   • Software Engineer

     Nov 2014 - Sep 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos·San Diego Metropolitan Area

     - Full stack web development using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL - Key engineer in roll out of in-house payments platform - Mentored interns and junior programmers - Finished as team lead on one of the web-based teams Skills: React.js · MySQL · Ruby · Ruby on Rails · JavaScript

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   Spokeo

   • Junior Software Engineer

     May 2014 - Oct 2014 · 6 mos

     - Full stack web development using Ruby on Rails - Worked with the SEM team to create and split-test new marketing strategies Skills: HTML · Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) · Ruby · Ruby on Rails · JavaScript

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   The Gnarcissistic, LLC. · Self-employed

   • Chief Technology Officer

     Jan 2014 - Apr 2014 · 4 mos·Los Angeles, California, United States

     - Start up venture to bring a social network and media sharing website to action sports enthusiasts. - Built the entire prototype website. Technologies included Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Amazon S3. Skills: HTML · Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) · Ruby · Ruby on Rails · PostgreSQL · JavaScript · Heroku · Amazon S3

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   Oversee.net

   • Software Engineer

     Mar 2013 - Nov 2013 · 9 mos·Los Angeles, California, United States

     - Worked as a software engineer on various projects. These included web development for several of Oversee's vertical projects and their internal resources, helping to maintain/upgrade their legacy domain management system, as well as working on a distributed monitoring system to monitor the status of the millions of domains in their portfolio. - Programming was primarily in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and HTML/CSS/JS. Skills: Ruby · Ruby on Rails · JavaScript

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    AHHHA, Inc

    • Independent Contractor

      Jul 2012 - Aug 2012 · 2 mos·Palo Alto, CA

      -Worked on AHHHA's website, primarily composed of front-end work in JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5, as well as back-end work using the Django web framework. -Rebuilt corporate website in Django -As the company is a start-up, I played a significant role in working with the lead designer and the CEO to make important visual and architectural design decisions.

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    YELLOWPAGES.COM, LLC D/B/A AT&T INTERACTIVE

    • Intern

      Jun 2011 - Sep 2011 · 4 mos·Glendale, CA

      -Prototyped integration of YPmobile for Android with services provided by Snapfinger and OpenTable -Helped with other aspects of development including QA and product ideation

    • Intern

      Jun 2009 - Aug 2009 · 3 mos·Glendale, California

      -Aided development of the YPMobile application for Java-based phones -Helped with a variety of tasks, including: UI coding, unit testing, QA, application data gathering, product ideation

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    Enterprises

    • Co-creator and manager of Team Epic, LLC.

      Feb 2003 - Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 11 mos·Los Angeles, California

      We provided eSports solutions for a now defunct gaming website. This included managing an IRC channel, game servers, Ventrilo server, and developing and managing website. Programming done in PHP, CSS, HTML, Javascript.

Education

1. 
   University of Southern CaliforniaPostgraduate Degree, Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical StudiesAug 2019 - Dec 2019

   Went back to school to pursue a medical degree. Then the pandemic hit and I decided to reevaluate.

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   Stanford UniversityB.S, Computer Science2007 - 2012

   -Psychology minor -Other academic interests included French, Music, Philosophy, Biology, Symbolic Systems

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   Polytechnic School2005 - 2007

Skills