Alex Van Matre
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// work
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Experience

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a1c9f3e · 2025 — now
Software Development Engineer 3 — Lodging Pricing
Expedia Group — Pricing Platform · Seattle, WA
Rejoined the Pricing team as part of the platform squad to work on projects such as rebuilding the deployment platform, cutting an estimated $1.1M/year in costs, and integrating AI into internal toolset APIs.
ScalaKotlinAWSTerraformGitHub Actions
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6e2b4a1 · 2024 — 2025
Software Engineer II — Azure CXP
Microsoft · Redmond, WA
Worked on app modernization for the OutageHub team, focused on giving users clear, fast information to help resolve outages.
ReactReact NativeC#
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4d8e21a · 2022 — 2024
Software Development Engineer II — Lodging Pricing
Expedia Group · Seattle, WA
Built pricing calculations handling 11M+ requests/second across 15,000+ EC2 instances, leading feature work across 8 initiatives that grew annual revenue by an estimated $165M. Introduced infra changes that cut AWS costs by $9M/year, reviewed 750+ PRs as a design-review champion, and mentored 4 new grads and 2 interns.
ScalaSpringJavaKotlinAWSMongoDBTerraform
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9b3f7c0 · 2021 — 2022
Software Development Engineer I — Lodging Pricing
Expedia Group · Seattle, WA
Joined the backend feature team building pricing calculations for lodging inventory.
JavaScalaGit
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education · grad. june 2021
B.S. Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Washington, Bothell
Capstone: built a shortest-path algorithm, "Strings and Pins," on the university's Java-based distributed programming framework, MASS.