Alex Wright

About Alex Wright

Technical leader with 10+ years of experience delivering high-impact platforms at the intersection of engineering, product, and business. Led and influenced teams building mission-critical systems, including e-commerce and financial platforms driving $8B+ in annual revenue and supporting tens of billions in financial originations and deposits. Known for aligning technical strategy with business outcomes, modernizing legacy systems, and enabling teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Live Oak Bank

   Sep 2024 — Present

   Built customer-facing platforms and internal tooling that supported 78% YoY growth in checking balances and 94% YoY growth in Live Oak Express production as part of the bank’s 2025 performance.Architected and delivered a unified internal data aggregation platform, synthesizing customer data from core banking vendors and first-party sources into a high-performance, searchable interface, decoupling business intelligence from vendor-locked infrastructure.Provided technical leadership for the registration and enrollment system rewrite, partnering with product, design, and business stakeholders to define roadmap and execution; integrated Auth0 to unify authentication, improving security, consistency, and conversion reliability.Designed and implemented scalable React/TypeScript frontends used across digital acquisition and servicing flows, balancing performance, maintainability, and user experience in high-traffic, revenue-impacting systems.Owned infrastructure automation using Terraform, enabling consistent, secure cloud provisioning, accelerating deployment cycles, and reducing operational risk across marketing and enrollment platforms.Influenced engineering standards and team effectiveness, mentoring engineers, contributing to architectural decisions, and driving best practices in full-stack development, infrastructure automation, and cross-functional collaboration.