Resume · September 2026

Alex Frison

Software Engineer · Platform Architect · Founder of OpenVibe

Open to pretty much anything — engineering, platform, analytics, ops, sales, whatever fits · remote or Pacific Northwest

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Profile

I'm a software engineer and business owner who builds complete products and keeps them running: websites, platforms, payment systems, AI agents and the automation behind them. Over the last decade I've shipped 25+ sites and services, rebuilt a live payments program across five processors, led a sales team, and turned an Amazon data-analysis job into tooling other Amazon associates used every day. Give me a problem or a rough idea and I'll deliver the whole thing: design, code, deployment and support.

Experience

Software Engineer (Contract)
PowerChat · Remote
Aug 2026 — Present

Creator monetization platform: tips, alerts, overlays, TTS and chat integrations across Twitch, Kick, YouTube and Rumble. I own large platform programs end to end on the v2 TypeScript rewrite.

  • Designed and shipped the Developer API platform end to end: PowerChat became an OAuth2 authorization server with scoped consent, token lifecycle, HMAC-signed webhooks and an inbound API, so third-party apps act as pseudo-platforms feeding chat, view counts, follows, subs, currency and tips into overlays. Re-implemented Streamlabs as the first official app on the new framework.
  • Rebuilt the payments program as one system: a provider-agnostic charge rail with five adapters (Stripe Connect, Square, PayPal, an NMI card vault and NowPayments crypto), append-only ledgers where double-crediting is structurally impossible, Tipalti payouts, recurring Pro and viewer-subscription billing, signed webhooks per provider and an admin reconciliation surface.
  • Delivered 400+ commits and roughly 300k changed lines in the first five weeks across integrations, payments and Rumble connection work, backed by 240+ governed backend integration tests and 1,700+ frontend unit tests, with lint, typecheck and empty-database migration proofs in CI.

TypeScript · Node.js · Express · React · Prisma · PostgreSQL 17 · Redis · BullMQ · OAuth2 · Stripe · Square · PayPal · NMI · Tipalti · Docker · GitLab CI

Founder · Architect · Sole Engineer
OpenVibe · openvibe.live and 20+ domains
2026 — Present

An open, community-run live-streaming network I own end to end. Launched in 2026 as a single streaming site and grown, in the same year, into seven connected apps sharing one login, with me as the only engineer on it.

  • Designed and built an entire network of seven apps that work together under one account: live streaming, sign-in and a virtual-currency wallet, media storage, a 169-tool toolbox, a browser game and a community hub. About 363,000 lines of code and 900+ web endpoints — all built, deployed and kept running by me alone.
  • Built the live-streaming engine from the ground up: anyone can broadcast from a browser or an app, and it automatically re-broadcasts to Twitch, YouTube, Kick and more at the same time, saves the recording and auto-generates short clips. It also produces live captions and translates them into about 21 languages in real time, and uses AI to spot and label the best moments in every stream.
  • Ran it like a real product: I built a deploy pipeline that updates the live site with zero downtime viewers ever notice, cut the homepage's load time roughly in half and eliminated the jarring layout jumps it used to have, and — when it came time to move everything to new infrastructure — moved every user, every account balance and every active player over with zero downtime and zero data loss.

Node.js · TypeScript · Express · SQLite (WAL) · mediasoup · werift · ffmpeg · whisper.cpp · Babylon.js · Havok · OAuth2 / OIDC · RS256 JWT · nginx · systemd · Cloudflare · B2 / R2 · Prometheus-style diagnostics

Data Analyst — ICQA
Amazon · PAE2 · Arlington, WA
2024 — Mar 2026

Inventory Control and Quality Assurance analytics for a fulfillment center, including the Sarbanes-Oxley controls behind inventory accuracy.

  • Owned the SOX-compliance IRDR workflow: personally researched 1,000+ inventory discrepancies and built the data systems and reporting that satisfied Sarbanes-Oxley audit requirements.
  • Built SQL and Excel reporting for inventory accuracy and defect visibility; delivered dashboards, recurring leadership reports and a network-wide quality recap deck.
  • Shipped an autonomous root-cause agent that plans, gathers evidence and writes complete IRDRs, collapsing hours of research per defect into seconds.

SQL · Excel / Power Query / VBA · Python · Anthropic API · Tool-use agents · TamperMonkey · SOX compliance

Amnesty Floor Monitor — Amazon Robotics
Amazon · Robotics launch site
2023 — 2024
  • Monitored the Amazon Robotics floor during launch operations: enforced amnesty zones, cleared obstructions and kept pod and drive-unit flow safe.
  • Investigated recurring pod, drive and workstation defects, documented patterns and escalated to RME and operations leadership to drive process fixes.

Amazon Robotics · Floor safety · Electro-mechanical troubleshooting · Incident documentation

Assistant Manager / Sales Representative
Verizon Wireless
2020 — 2023
  • Ranked among the district's top performers, consistently exceeding monthly quotas across phones, plans, accessories, protection and financing.
  • Promoted to Assistant Manager; coached a team of 4 to 8 reps through 1-on-1s, floor coaching and skill workshops, and ran opens, closes, inventory and escalations.
  • Turned walk-ins into multi-line accounts through consultative, needs-first selling. That habit still shapes how I present systems and decisions.

Consultative sales · Team leadership · Coaching · Retail operations · Customer retention

Founder · Developer · Systems Admin
Own company, LLC
2015 — Present
  • Built analytics platforms tracking 200,000+ live game servers: ingestion, search, ranking, dashboards and licensed partner APIs. Ranked first on Google for several major titles.
  • Self-built and collocated 1U and 2U servers in datacenters; designed for scale and DDoS resilience and ran the whole LLC, from licenses and taxes to partner relations.
  • Rebuilding the idea in 2026 as GameServerLists (launching soon): a 14-service, game-agnostic server-discovery platform with multi-region probes, time-weighted ranking, an anti-fraud integrity engine and a tiered public API.

Node.js · TypeScript · PHP · Python · MongoDB · TimescaleDB · Redis · NGINX · Linux

Earlier Technical & Business Work
Devolved · GModStore · eBay
2012 — 2015
  • Built multiplayer game systems, monetized in-game economies and digital products sold through ScriptFodder and GModStore.
  • Produced graphics, support docs, e-commerce listings and moderation workflows, and ran online communities at scale.

Lua · PHP · MySQL · Photoshop · Source Engine

Selected work

  • OpenVibe.Live Open live-streaming platform: RTMP, WHIP and WebRTC ingest, multi-destination restream, VODs, clips, chat, live captions and translation. 529 routes, one engineer. openvibe.live
  • OpenVibe.Network The identity and shared spine of the network: an OIDC/OAuth2 provider with RS256 tokens, the OpenCoins wallet, notifications, themes and the shared navbar every site renders. openvibe.network
  • OpenVibe.Media Multi-tenant media backend for the whole network: RTMP and RTP recording, chunked uploads, clip cutting, thumbnails, pastes, view counting and local → B2 → R2 storage tiering. openvibe.media
  • OpenVibe.Tools 169 server-rendered tools across 8 families with a host registry, custom-domain mirrors and full SEO plumbing: converters, PDF, images, audio, DNS, YouTube, maps and food finders. openvibe.tools
  • Scraplandia on OpenVibe.Games Browser multiplayer survival building game: authoritative dedicated server, client-side prediction, Havok physics, GMod-style physgun building and an in-browser collaborative editor. openvibe.games
  • Live captions & translation layer Local whisper.cpp transcription feeding LLM translation in about 21 languages: live captions, two-way chat translation and translated bios, built so a Japanese-speaking streamer could be understood.

Skills

Engineering & platform

TypeScript / JavaScript · Node.js / Express · React · Python · PostgreSQL / Prisma · SQLite (WAL) / MySQL · Redis / BullMQ · REST & event-driven design · PHP · HTML / CSS / SSR

Streaming & realtime

RTMP / SRT / WHIP · WebRTC (mediasoup, werift) · ffmpeg pipelines · HLS / DASH · WebSockets · TURN / coturn · Restream & VOD systems · Live captions (whisper.cpp)

AI tooling & data

Anthropic / OpenAI-compatible APIs · Tool-use agents · Local inference (whisper.cpp, Ollama) · Prompt & cost governance · SQL analytics · Excel / Power Query / VBA · Dashboards & reporting · Root-cause analysis

Infrastructure & operations

Linux (Debian / Ubuntu) · nginx · systemd & socket activation · Docker / Compose · Cloudflare (DNS, edge, R2) · Backblaze B2 / S3 APIs · Zero-downtime deploys & rollback · Performance profiling (CDP) · DDoS resilience · Bare-metal 1U/2U builds

Identity, payments & security

OAuth2 / OIDC providers · JWT (RS256), JWKS, SSO, FedCM · Stripe Connect / Square / PayPal · NMI vault / Tipalti payouts · Ledger design & idempotency · Webhook signing & verification · SSRF / egress hardening · SOX-style audit trails

Game development

Babylon.js (WebGPU/WebGL) · Havok physics · Authoritative servers & prediction · Lua / Source Engine · C# / C++ · Gameplay systems & economies

Leadership & communication

Founding & operating an LLC · Technical writing & runbooks · Coaching & team leadership · Consultative sales · Stakeholder reporting · Community moderation at scale

Education

Snohomish High School, WA. AP Statistics, Calculus, English, Creative Writing and Spanish. Self-taught engineer since age 12: systems, infrastructure, graphics, hardware and whatever the problem needs.