# Alex Rivera

> Software engineer building developer tools and reliable backends.

Software Engineer at Northwind Labs. 8+ years of professional experience. Based in Lisbon, remote.

Focus: Developer tools & reliable backends.

Building the internal platform at Northwind Labs: deploy pipelines, service templates, and the tooling that keeps them boring.

Previously built payment APIs at Brightpay.

## Portfolio

- [Full portfolio as Markdown](https://alex-rivera.example/llms-full.txt): experience, selected work, projects, skills, contact, and every blog post in one file
- [Website](https://alex-rivera.example): the human-readable version

## Blog

- [Hello world](https://alex-rivera.example/blog/hello-world.md): A first post that doubles as the authoring guide for this site. Replace it with your own writing.
- [RSS](https://alex-rivera.example/rss.xml) and [JSON Feed](https://alex-rivera.example/feed.json)

## MCP server

- [https://alex-rivera.example/mcp](https://alex-rivera.example/mcp): read-only MCP server (Streamable HTTP) with tools to search and read this portfolio. Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http alex https://alex-rivera.example/mcp`

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:alex@alex-rivera.example): alex@alex-rivera.example
- [GitHub](https://github.com/alexrivera): @alexrivera
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexrivera): /in/alexrivera
- [Twitter/X](https://twitter.com/alexrivera): @alexrivera