Alex R

Software Engineer, CoCounsel Core Skills

Thomson Reuters • Vollzeit

Jul 2025 - Apr 2026 • 9 mos

• Engineered efficiency improvements to the Textractor Paragraph Processor pipeline, optimizing document-summary throughput and significantly reducing end-to-end processing latency for AI-driven legal document analysis. • Integrated Footnotes microservices into Core Skills workflows, enabling automated document summarization and timeline extraction from large-scale legal corpora using LLM-based NLP pipelines. • Conducted research and proof-of-concept evaluation of FastAPI to modernize Core Skills service layer, identifying performance gains and scalability improvements for high-throughput AI inference endpoints. • Leveraged Claude Code and Open Arena AI developer tools for code generation, debugging, and rapid prototyping; implemented features in Python (Visual Studio) and validated endpoints via Insomnia REST client. • Led structured code reviews across the Core Skills team, enforcing best practices in Python microservice architecture, API design, and AI/ML integration patterns.

Software Engineer, Managed Cloud & Infrastructure Services

NTT DATA • Vollzeit

Aug 2020 - Dec 2024 • 4 yrs 4 mos

• Designed and deployed scalable RESTful APIs serving real-time data from Elasticsearch indexes, powering analytics dashboards used by enterprise customers across cloud-managed infrastructure. • Integrated APIs with the NTT Cloudlink platform to support real-time data pipelines and observability dashboards, improving system monitoring and operational visibility at scale. • Built modular data visualization components using D3.js and React, enabling seamless analytics integration across multiple web applications within a microservice architecture. • Developed AI-driven hackathon project integrating OpenAI and Elasticsearch to query structured data and render dynamic D3.js visualizations from natural-language user prompts. • Enhanced business-critical modules on the NTT Global Services Portal (Change Request, Alerts, Environments Management) using React, TypeScript, and microservice design patterns.

Software Engineer, IBM Cloud

IBM • Vollzeit

Aug 2018 - Aug 2020 • 2 yrs

• Secured inter-service communication for the Security Groups microservice by implementing mutual TLS using Python/gRPC and Golang authentication on Virtual Private Cloud network clients. • Optimized RPM deployment pipeline performance via asynchronous execution using PHP and Bash, reducing deployment cycle time across multi-region cloud infrastructure. • Transitioned Security Groups monitors to the Operational Support Systems Event Data Broker using New Relic synthetic monitors and ServiceNow alert channels, improving incident response workflows. • Led Phase 2 Authorization Testing for Security Groups on VPC and PHP7 upgrade environments; provided on-call support and maintained production codebase reliability.