Alex Olvera.

1. Full Stack Engineer

   Main Street, Inc.

   Nov 2024 – Present

   Primary developer and technical lead on a six-person team building Connect — a multi-tenant SaaS for financial institutions with core banking data integration and a data partnership with Claritas P$YCLE. Brought on to rescue and rebuild the legacy CoreIQ platform after a failed third-party engagement; shipped Connect to market, where it's live with paying customers.

   • Architected backend services in ASP.NET/C# on a full AWS stack: ECS, Aurora RDS, Cognito, CloudFront, S3, WAF, Lambda, Amazon MQ (RabbitMQ), Secrets Manager, and CDK
   • Implemented SMS MFA, per-tenant subdomain management, and WAF-based IP whitelisting to meet financial-institution security requirements
   • Own end-to-end CI/CD pipelines: build validation, deployments, security scans, and E2E testing
   • Driving team-wide adoption of AI-assisted development; partnering with management to integrate tools like Claude Code into daily engineering practice
2. Full Stack Engineer / Team Lead

   Metova Strategies, LLC

   2022 – Nov 2024

   Led development across 10+ concurrent client projects ranging from weeks to multi-year engagements, managing teams of up to 10 developers. Ran weekly planning and daily stand-ups across parallel projects, mentored engineers, and partnered with project management to scope requirements, manage budgets, and hit delivery milestones.

   • Led teams of up to 10 engineers across 10+ concurrent projects
   • Ran weekly planning and daily stand-ups; mentored engineers and kept task scope clear
   • Worked across the stack in .NET, Node/Nest, React, Angular, and Python
3. Systems Engineer & Administrator

   Virtual Packaging

   2017 – 2022

   Designed and maintained on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure across the organization. Nearly a decade of cumulative sysadmin work (here and before) gives me a strong instinct for how applications actually run in production — DNS, identity, networking, and deployment.

   • Owned on-prem and cloud infrastructure end-to-end
   • ~9 years cumulative sysadmin experience — Linux, NGINX, Active Directory, DNS

Most of my work has been on closed-source products for the companies I've worked at — so instead of code links, here's a short list of what I helped build and ship.

• Connect

  Main Street, Inc. · Full Stack Engineer

  Multi-tenant SaaS marketing and engagement platform for banks and credit unions. Unifies digital and direct-mail campaigns with core banking data integration, audience targeting, and conversion measurement. Rebuilt from scratch after a failed third-party rebuild of the legacy CoreIQ platform; live with paying customers.

  • ASP.NET
  • C#
  • AWS ECS
  • Aurora RDS
  • Cognito
  • CDK

• Offender Watch

  Metova Strategies · Lead Developer

  Hybrid iOS/Android mobile app for child-safety monitoring with proximity alerts for registered offenders. Built the Ionic/Angular frontend and the .NET backend on Azure, with Google Maps integration, Firebase push notifications, and Stripe / Apple Pay subscription billing.

  • Angular
  • Ionic
  • iOS / Android
  • .NET
  • Azure
  • Stripe

• MyQuery

  Metova Strategies · Lead Developer

  Social media data SaaS with Twitter Enterprise API integration. Microservices architecture orchestrated through AWS API Gateway, with Python FastAPI services handling the bulk of the data pipeline and a React admin frontend for docs and API keys.

  • AWS Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • FastAPI
  • Express
  • React

• Legendary Stakes

  Metova Strategies · Lead Developer

  Full redesign of a western horse competition platform. React frontend on CloudFront; Nest.js API on AWS ECS/RDS; Firebase auth; Square in-app payments and credit system. Picked up after the client's multi-year engagement with a prior firm wasn't working out.

  • React
  • Nest.js
  • AWS ECS
  • PostgreSQL
  • Firebase
  • Square

• Games

  Mostly RPGs — big open worlds and long stories I can sink weeks into.

  • Final Fantasy
  • Fallout
  • The Witcher
  • Cyberpunk 2077

• Racing sim

  Mostly solo track time, occasionally league races. The one hobby where being precise actually feels relaxing.

  • Gran Turismo
  • F1 25

• Gunpla

  Master Grade and Real Grade kits. Satisfying in the opposite way software is — when it's done, it stays done.

  • Master Grade
  • Real Grade