Hi, I'm Alex Williamson
software engineer|

I currently work at Cox Automotive where I work on the Data Platform team which organizes the data across all the brands Cox Automotive owns.

Experience

FedEx Services

Full Stack Developer II

Feb 2022 – Mar 2024 · Remote

  • Led development of two full-stack applications — an incident tracking platform and a server dashboard — using Spring Boot, React, and Angular
  • Migrated authentication from header-based auth to OAuth 2.0 PKCE flow using Okta, configuring HTTPS, SSL certificates, and new load balancers
  • Optimized CSS build pipeline achieving a 300% reduction in compile time and 75% reduction in file size

Cox Automotive

Software Engineer II

Mar 2024 – Present · Atlanta, GA

  • Built and maintained Snowflake automation and governance microservices on the Data Platform using Spring Boot, AWS, Terraform, and Python
  • Created an AI troubleshooting Slack bot using RAG over an indexed knowledge base, integrated with a custom MCP server via Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for real-time CloudWatch log querying
  • Led development of a temporary Snowflake role access workflow with break-glass controls, duration-based approvals, and end-to-end auditing

Skills

Languages
Frontend
Backend
Database
Tools
Cloud
SQL
CSS
Jenkins
JUnit
Groovy
Spring Boot
React
AWS IAM
HTML
Maven
MCP
Postman
Snowflake
Mockito
Python
GitHub Actions
JavaScript
AWS
Docker
New Relic
TypeScript
Angular
Java
PostgreSQL
AWS Lambda
CloudWatch
Git
RAG
MySQL
GitHub
Amazon Bedrock
Terraform