Alex Carter
Full-stack DeveloperAmsterdam, NL
I'm a full-stack developer with 8+ years of experience building web platforms, developer tools, and open-source libraries. I care about performance budgets, boring reliable architecture, and documentation people actually read.
Right now I lead a platform team at Nimbus Labs, and maintain a handful of open-source projects on the side. When I'm not shipping, I write about what I've learned on theblog.
Experience
Nimbus LabsWorking
Staff Engineer
Jan 2024 – Present
Amsterdam, NL (Hybrid)
Leading the platform team building a multi-tenant deployment pipeline. Cut median build times by 60% and drove adoption of edge rendering across all customer-facing apps.
TypeScriptGoKubernetesPostgreSQLFathom Analytics
Senior Full-stack Developer
Mar 2021 – Dec 2023
Remote (Remote)
Built privacy-first analytics dashboards used by 30k+ sites. Owned the ingestion pipeline handling 1B+ events/month and rewrote the reporting UI for a 3x speedup.
TypeScriptReactNode.jsClickHouseBraintrust Studio
Full-stack Developer
Jun 2018 – Feb 2021
Berlin, DE (On-Site)
Delivered web platforms for clients in fintech and e-commerce. Introduced automated testing and CI that dropped regression bugs by half.
JavaScriptVuePythonAWS
Skills
Frontend
Backend
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
How I think about engineering
I believe the best software is the software you can delete. Small, composable modules beat clever abstractions; boring technology beats novel technology until the problem demands otherwise.
Performance is a feature, accessibility is a requirement, and developer experience is how you scale a team. I default to open source — working in public keeps the quality bar honest.