Full Stack Engineer
Paul Alexander
Automate More. Ship Faster.
Full stack engineer with 14 years of experience building production web platforms. Focused on automation, efficiency, and shipping things that last.
Work
Skillset
Backend
Frontend
Platforms & Tools
Practices
Background
Full stack engineer based in Garner, NC with 14 years of production experience. I co-founded a company and built its entire technology stack from scratch — that background shapes how I approach every project: automate the repetitive, cut the unnecessary, ship the thing. When I’m not shipping code, I’m somewhere on a trail or planning the next trip — usually with friends and a couple of dogs in tow.
Experience
Jan 2021 – Present
Full Stack Engineer
Cardinal Financial Company
One of just two engineers responsible for five consumer-facing national marketing sites, within a 50+ person engineering organization. Currently leading the migration of those sites off WordPress onto Next.js — now the team's exclusive front-end framework — and serving as subject-matter expert for a documentation platform (MkDocs + Next.js) running on AWS CDK, with growing hands-on infrastructure-as-code work across CDK, Amplify, and Lambda. Also builds automations that consume production APIs — including Loan Originator landing pages that generate on demand and stay in sync as the originator roster changes — and previously rebuilt the company intranet from WordPress to a Laravel/Livewire/Alpine platform engineered for 1,000+ concurrent users.
2015 – 2020
Co-Owner & Lead Developer
Refab Wood, LLC
Co-owned and operated a real business — product designer, production manager, accounts analyst, and the only developer. Built the entire technology stack from scratch: customer-facing site, full admin platform (orders, invoices, purchase orders, scheduling, blog), and a near-complete custom e-commerce storefront.
2012 – 2020
Freelance Developer
Built custom web applications for small business clients — CMSs, e-commerce storefronts, project management tools, and procurement systems. Everything delivered to production.
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Let’s build something
worth shipping.
14 years of production experience means I know what it takes to go from idea to live product. If you’ve got a problem worth solving, I want to hear it.