Alex Favaro

Cofounder

Comity

Jul 2021 - Current (5 years)

We’re on a mission to improve the reliability and efficiency of the electrical grid while reducing its carbon footprint. To accomplish this aim, we’re developing core forecasting and trading infrastructure to improve energy market efficiency, as well as innovative financial products that will accelerate the deployment of renewable energy resources. We’re working towards a vision of the grid that is efficient, autonomous, resilient, and powered by 100% renewable energy.

Director, Software Engineering

Affirm

Aug 2020 - May 2021 (10 months)

Lead a team of senior engineers in an initiative to migrate Affirm's monolithic backend to a service oriented architecture.

Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning

Affirm Inc

Apr 2018 - Aug 2020 (2 years 5 months)

Tech lead for the Machine Learning Platform team.

Engineering Manager

Affirm Inc

Jun 2016 - Apr 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Manager and tech lead for a team of 7 engineers working on the backend of the Affirm Anywhere mobile app.

Senior Software Engineer

Affirm Inc

Sep 2013 - Jun 2016 (2 years 10 months)

Tech lead for the Bank Engineering team.

Software Engineering Intern

Square

Jun 2013 - Sep 2013 (4 months)

Member of Data Engineering team. Rewrote a core analytics ETL for computing churn rates from a set of SQL scripts to a Cascading job, reducing run time from ~12 hours to < 30 minutes. Introduced and evangelized Hue as an inteface for analysts to access the team's Hadoop cluster.

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Cofounder

Omnihours

Mar 2012 - Mar 2013 (1 year 1 month)

Primary developer of a social network for students of MOOCs. Built and maintained a web service powered by a Pyramid web application, PostgreSQL database installation, Solr search installation, and ejabberd XMPP server, all running on Amazon EC2. Particpated in The Alchemist Accelerator's inaugural class.

Software Engineering Intern

Google

Jun 2011 - Sep 2011 (4 months)

Improved and extended the animations framework in the Google Docs presentation editor to handle slide transitions and more complex animation behavior. Updated the UI for animations to match Google's new look and feel.

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Research Intern

Stanford Mobile and Social Computing Research Group

Jun 2010 - Sep 2010 (4 months)

Ported Junction, a framework for applications that work across multiple devices, from Java to Objective-C for the iOS platform. Developed demo apps including a collaborative whiteboard for the iPad and PartyWare (an experimental app for augmented social interaction) for the iPhone, both of which interact with corresponding Android and Web clients.

Software Engineering Intern

Amie Street

Aug 2009 - Sep 2009 (2 months)

Developed an MP3 downloader application for Mac and Windows that facilitated the delivery of purchased music to Amie Street's users.

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