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    Alex Gerstein

    Alex Gerstein

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    Backend Engineer San Francisco Bay Area Dartmouth College '15
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    Experience
    Gusto
    Gusto
    Software Engineer 2015 - 2018 (about 3 years)
    - Reduced customers’ tax agency error rates by 85% through co-architecture and development of replacement for third-party tax payments and filings engine
    - Added $XM in... more ARR as lead engineer on best-in-class feature that allows companies to receive their federal R&D tax credit refunds in real-time, instead of waiting for end-of-quarter
    - Created product initiative to support contractor only businesses after researching and pitching their importance to company growth in front of executive team and investors
    - Increased application security and developer satisfaction by introducing static code linters and upgrading monolithic Rails codebase from Rails 4 to Rails 5
    Software Engineer Intern 2014 (2 months)
    - Eliminated monthly, three-day billing process by building full Rails/Backbone.js site for accountant referral program to track referred clients and automate direct billing
    -... more Improved fraud detection, expanded support for auto-payroll, and tweaked user experience by squashing various bugs and adding minor features using test-driven development
    KAYAK
    KAYAK
    Software Engineer Intern 2014 (2 months)
    - Led company-wide transition to AngularJS with UX/UI redesign of ad management console
    - Improved account manager productivity by implementing bookmarks and change analysis... more graphs
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    KAYAK, Gusto, Commure
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    Projects
    Sourcemash
    Read Your News Faster.
    Web-based RSS feed aggregator that algorithmically clusters articles by topic to reduce source bias. Co-wrote and designed as senior culminating experience.… · More Winner of the 2015 John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for “Software Design” at Dartmouth College.
    DARTplan
    Class planner for Dartmouth students
    Built using Python microframework, Flask. Although project primarily served as motivation to learn Javascript and RESTful APIs, served over 2,000 users at its peak.
     
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    Achievements

    Improved search performance by over 90% on a FHIR-conformant API web server. Managed ten engineers.

    Developed various end-to-end features at Gusto that decreased error rates by over 85% and added millions of dollars in revenue.

    Winner of the 2015 John G. Kemeny Computing Prize for “Software Design” at Dartmouth College for Sourcemash, an RSS feed aggregator that aims to reduce same source bias.

    Creator of DARTplan, a course planning webapp for Dartmouth students that reached over 2K users.

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    Skills
    Python Javascript Web Development Ruby on Rails Rust​
    Locations
    San Francisco
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