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Alex Malott

Senior Software Engineer

Fort Collins, COalex@malott.dev (PGP Key)+1-720-346-4293LinkedInGitLab

Professional Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years across enterprise observability and microfrontend platform engineering. Currently a senior IC on OpenText's shared Angular microfrontend framework; previously led frontend for an OpenTelemetry-based observability product — shipped 10 consecutive on-time quarterly releases and cut CI/CD pipeline duration 91%. Specialize in microfrontend systems (Module Federation, Nx) and OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

Key Skills

TypeScriptReactMicrofrontendsOpenTelemetryModule FederationNx

Experience

OpenText

Observability and Service Management

Senior Software EngineerOctober 2025–Present

Senior IC on UI Foundation, the shared Angular microfrontend framework other product teams build on

Ramped onto a decade-old, unfamiliar codebase and became a fully productive contributor within about 3 months, shipping major features including widgets-by-reference and tabbed widget groups
Diagnosed and fixed a performance regression in the widgets registry service, rewriting a linear-scan by-ID lookup as a Set-backed O(1) lookup
Works across the platform's ~8 Node.js/Express BFF services, from writing and fixing service code to designing and reviewing APIs

TypeScriptAngularMicrofrontendsModule FederationNode.jsExpress

Senior Software Engineer — Frontend LeadJune 2022–October 2025

Frontend Lead for Core Application Observability, an OpenTelemetry-based enterprise monitoring product

Deployed and maintained the observability suite via Helm across AWS, GCP, and Azure Kubernetes environments
Primary code reviewer for the team, reviewing around 100 merge requests per quarter
Led innersource contributions to shared Angular Module Federation framework, enabling modular microfrontend composition across multiple product teams
Reduced Jenkins CI/CD pipeline duration by 91% by implementing remote-cached Nx build and test artifacts
Built and maintained REST services in Go and Java/Spring Boot supporting observability features
Planned and helped build a metrics thresholding and alerting feature supporting 200+ multi-level thresholds, shipped to both customers
Migrated the team's Angular unit test suite from Jest to Vitest
Built a custom GitHub Copilot agent orchestrator for rapid real-code UI prototyping

TypeScriptJavaScriptAngularRxJSMicrofrontendsModule FederationOpenTelemetryCypressVitestNxHelmKubernetesAWSGCPAzureJavaSpring BootGoREST

Software EngineerApril 2020–June 2022

Frontend-focused full-stack development on AppHub, an enterprise Helm deployment platform for OpenText Service Management products

Conducted 12+ technical interviews; 6 hires onboarded and mentored
Implemented 10+ customer (OSM internal software teams) enhancement requests
Led Angular 13 to 17 migration, modernizing the frontend across 4 major versions and unblocking standalone components and new control flow syntax
Remediated 100+ npm audit vulnerabilities, clearing all high and critical CVEs blocking release
Served as the team's designated open-source license reviewer

AngularTypeScriptJavaHelmKubernetesJenkinsDocker

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

OneView Developer Tools

Junior Software EngineerJanuary 2019–April 2020

Full-stack developer on the HPE OneView developer tooling and infrastructure team

Stood up a Zabbix monitoring server and designed its alert-tier rules, then built a physical "traffic light" using a Raspberry Pi to poll it and instantly notify the team of infrastructure issues
Developed a Python/Django dashboard with a PostgreSQL backend for centralized test coverage tracking, adopted org-wide across hundreds of OneView repos
Shipped custom CentOS Linux developer VM image, saving ~3 hours per new environment setup

PythonDjangoNode.jsPostgreSQLGit

Software InternMay 2018–August 2018

Developed internal tooling for customer log analysis and VMware systems support

Developed parallelized Java application for identifying known system issues and recommended mitigations from customer support logs
Maintained and configured VMware/CentOS environments supporting the team's daily development workflow

JavaVMWareGit

HP Inc.

Remote Graphics Software

Software InternMay 2016–May 2018

Extended automated performance testing infrastructure and contributed to HP Remote Graphics Software development

Extended automated performance test infrastructure with hardware (high-speed camera for monitoring, Raspberry Pi Zero for input emulation) to enable testing on thin clients without requiring custom client software
Developed bug reporting utilities in HP Remote Graphics Software, a C++/Qt cross-platform remote desktop client and server

C++QtPythonRaspberry Pi

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Colorado State University

January 2016–May 2019

Coursework including Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Design, Networking, Security, Parallelism, Databases
First place, 2018 Ram Reality VR create-a-thon: Unreal 4 tool to assess concussion severity; awarded continued funding

Technical Skills

Frontend

ReactNext.jsAngularRxJSTypeScriptJavaScriptTailwind CSSHTML/CSSMicrofrontendsModule FederationThree.js

Backend

Node.jsExpressPythonDjangoJavaSpring BootGo

Testing

VitestJestCypressPlaywrightReact Testing Library

DevOps & Tools

GitDockerKubernetesHelmOpenTelemetryGrafanaNxJenkinsGitLab CI/CDGitHub Actions

Databases & Cloud

PostgreSQLElasticsearchRedisContentfulVercelAWSAzureGCP

Selected Personal Work

malott.dev

Self-built, self-operated production portfolio

Built and operate this site itself: Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript strict mode — current-generation production experience alongside the Angular-based work above

Contentful headless CMS with ISR and webhook-based on-demand revalidation
Dual-layer observability (Vercel OpenTelemetry server-side, Grafana Faro RUM client-side) actively driving optimization and content decisions
336 unit tests plus cross-browser E2E (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, WebKit); WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, CI-validated
Three.js terrain background with adaptive quality tiers driven by real-time FPS monitoring; Tailwind CSS 4 with OKLCH color space across 8 theme combinations
GitLab CI/CD with lint, type-check, dependency auditing, secret scanning, and Lighthouse CI

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptContentfulVitestPlaywrightThree.jsTailwind CSSGitLab CI/CD

Speaking & Leadership

3x internal 'Innofest' presentations at OpenText, including a round-3 presentation to business-unit leadership
Delivered lunch-and-learn sessions on Angular and Cypress to a ~10-person frontend team
Authored extensive internal developer-tooling and framework documentation

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