Alex Coté

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Experience

• Maintain and support 200+ JVM-based middleware microservices across Java, Scala, and Kotlin, integrating with systems such as Solr, Kafka, Redis, and internal business platforms.
• Built an event-driven customer search indexing platform used by POS systems and backend services for low-latency customer data retrieval.
  • Designed Kafka-based change-event pipelines and Solr indexing workflows to keep customer search data synchronized across multiple source systems.
  • Developed a parallel Akka Streams reindexing service that processes 10M+ customer records from multiple databases in under 2 hours.
• Implemented eSIM activation integrations with Microsoft and Idemia, enabling customers to activate wireless service directly from Windows tablets.
• Founded the C Spire OSS employee working group to fund open source software, establish contribution policies, and support the release of internal projects.
  • Partner with Security, Legal, and Executive teams to define company-wide policies for open source usage, contribution, and project release.
• Created an internal Markdown/Git-based developer documentation platform used by ~50 developers and adopted as the foundation for a company-wide developer AI knowledge base.
• Led team-wide adoption of Kotlin, Ktor, and Gradle for new microservices, replacing Scala, Akka HTTP, and Maven as the team’s default backend stack.

Projects

• Sublime Text plugin that ports Helix-style modal editing into Sublime, including normal, insert, select, and view modes with mode-aware keybindings.
• Built core editing behavior such as movement commands, selection manipulation, registers, yank/delete/change operations, paste behavior, and plugin state management.

• Building an experimental 3D mesh generation tool in Zig using Sokol and OpenGL.
• Generates mesh geometry from n-gon faces with automatic normal calculation.
• Exploring low-poly modeling workflows, graphics programming, and custom mesh data structures.

• Led a four-person backend team (alongside a four-person frontend team) that designed and developed the backend for a Senior Design course project.
• The project was a full-stack system for the MSU School of Veterinary Medicine to collect and analyze animal medical data across all MSU farms.

Skills

• Languages: Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Zig, SQL, JavaScript, HTML/CSS

• Backend: Spring Boot, Ktor, Akka, Akka HTTP, Hibernate, Apache Camel

• Data & Infrastructure: Kafka, Kafka Connect, Solr, Redis, Docker, Podman, Linux, Git, Maven, Gradle

• Web: HTMX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript

Education

• Worked as a CS department system administrator managing staff PCs and Linux servers.