Alex Aumais

Databricks

Software Engineer Intern - May 2026 - Present

• Designed idempotent Temporal workflows with retry, heartbeat, rollback, and failure recovery for resilient data operations.
• Drove a 70x speedup in a copy pipeline by identifying inefficiency, working across teams, and leading production rollout planning.

Bloomberg

Software Engineer Intern - Sept 2025 - Dec 2025

• Designed a high-volume Parquet ingestion pipeline powering pricing data for Liquidity Analytics in Enterprise Data.
• Only intern to ship to production, validating outputs with Jupyter-based diffing, mock testing, and production parity analysis.

Voiceflow

Runtime Software Engineer Intern - Jan 2025 - Apr 2025

• Shipped real-time AI voice and audio pipeline features including answering machine detection, noise suppression, and fast ASR, reducing TTS latency by 600ms.
• Resolved 3 Sev0 incidents and 130 runtime engine tickets across microservices using websockets and message queues.
• Read Turbocharging Voice Agents: Speed, Quality, and Powerful New Features.

Developer Advocate and Content Creator for Growth - Mar 2024 - Aug 2024

• Led the Voiceflow 2.0 documentation revamp, improving organization, writing new articles, and helping triple docs traffic.
• Built 5 GenAI apps using Python, TypeScript, C#, and React, plus 17 demos that reached 100k+ views.

Hack the North

Product Manager - Nov 2025 - Present

• Managed a 13-person engineering organization, unifying frontend and backend teams for Canada's largest hackathon.
• Authored PRDs and oversaw development to ship 14+ products with high quality and on-time delivery.
• Currently executing the largest-scale hardware project ever done by a North American hackathon, under NDA.

Backend Engineering Lead - Nov 2024 - Nov 2025

• Led and mentored 5 backend engineers through 8 products, including event gamification, scheduling tools, and hacker-facing initiatives.
• Launched Capture the Flag, designing hacker challenges and building algorithmic anti-cheat for 1,337+ players.
• Performed platform on-call maintenance on GCP, resolving production issues through log analysis, debugging, and patches.

Backend Software Engineer - Mar 2024 - Nov 2024

• Developed GraphQL CRUD endpoints in a TypeScript Apollo stack for authentication, kudos, buses, and event operations.
• Built and deployed Goose Guide Bot, a GenAI Slack bot used by 1,000+ participants that auto-answered 91% of questions.

Waterloo Rocketry

Media Lead - Sep 2024 - Sept 2025

• Created films, vlogs, graphics, and photography for rocket tests, technical updates, outreach, and team storytelling.

Software Developer - Sep 2023 - Sep 2024

• Wrote data analysis and graphing software to help the team process test data and understand vehicle performance.

Software Engineering Society

VP Events - Sep 2024 - Present

• Coordinate community programming and support event teams bringing the Software Engineering cohort together.

Cohort Representative - Sep 2023 - Sep 2024

• Ran student events and represented cohort feedback to the Software Engineering Society.

University of Waterloo

Residence Life Don - Sep 2024 - Dec 2024

• Supported 48 first-year students in residence through programming, 1:1s, and on-duty crisis response.

Tech3Lab HEC Montréal

HCI VR Researcher - Jul 2023 - Aug 2023

• Researched the impacts of physical artifacts in VR rehabilitation, built Python/Jupyter data analysis tools, and wrote a first-author paper submitted to CHI 2024.

Celeste Community

Broadcast Infrastructure Developer and Event Producer - Jan 2021 – Sept 2023

• Refactored 3,800 lines of Python broadcast control software into a more resilient architecture, reducing stream interruptions by 80%.
• Produced livestream events and helped raise $40,000 for Trans Rights.

City of Ottawa

Swim Instructor & Lifeguard - Mar 2022 - Jun 2023

• Taught swimming lessons and lifeguarded public programs, balancing safety, instruction, and clear communication.