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Alexa Nunes

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  • iHeartMedia
    Software Engineer
    iHeartMedia
    Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 10 months)
    • Built and shipped features for a greenfield redesign of the web platform, a SSR streaming media app serving 320M+ HTTP requests and 4.2M+ unique sessions monthly for a service with 180M+ registered users
    • Served as tech lead on a profile redesign across five content types, collaborating closely with the UX design team to implement their Figma specs pixel-faithfully, architecting routes and shared components, integrating supporting API endpoints, and directing multiple engineers through delivery
    • Owned migration of the podcast experience to TanStack Query, introducing infinite queries, single-entity queries, and mutations for episodes, search, and host recommendations, eliminating redundant data fetching and ad hoc loading stat
  • Parallel
    Software Engineer (Contract)
    Parallel
    Jul 2023 - Jan 2024 (7 months)
    • Architected the frontend foundation with Next.js and built a component library with React and TailwindCSS, allowing the app to scale with ease as it became more feature-rich
    • Created a Node.js and Express server for a RESTful backend architecture, integrating with the OpenAI API to enable real-time data streaming and deliver a dynamic and context-aware chat experience
    • Configured DynamoDB tables to manage chat data securely, leveraging its serverless system for extensive scalability
  • C
    Software Engineer
    CS Engineering
    Jul 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year)
    • Built UI components with React and Redux for internal dashboards and a client-facing learning platform
    • Developed Node.js/Express back-end REST API endpoints and middleware for input validation and authorization
    • Designed JavaScript challenges for a UI dev course and wrote unit tests with Jest and Chai to test users’ solutions
  • Swell
    Software Engineer (Contract)
    Swell
    Dec 2021 - Jul 2022 (8 months)
    • Redesigned state management with Redux Toolkit to modularize the store and reduce maintenance workload
    • Expanded TypeScript coverage by 80% to minimize bugs and streamline the development process
  • B
    Purchasing
    Bob’s Watches
    Jan 2019 - Nov 2021 (2 years 11 months)
    • Collaborated with internal engineering teams in structuring CRM software based on the sales team’s needs
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  • University of Southern California
    Bachelor of Arts, Theatre
    University of Southern California
  • Codesmith
    Advanced Residency for Software Engineering
    Codesmith