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Hi there! I'm Alan Dickey, a full-stack engineering leader based in Dallas, TX. I ship production SaaS from zero to one, blending Next.js/TypeScript frontends with Node.js/Express APIs, secure authentication, and scalable data models. I excel at delivering subscription products with Stripe billing, multi-tenant patterns, cloud deployments, and robust CI/CD, observability, and security. I also build AI-powered features with OpenAI/Anthropic-style workflows, with guardrails, cost controls, and measurable user impact.…Hi there! I'm Alan Dickey, a full-stack engineering leader based in Dallas, TX. I ship production SaaS from zero to one, blending Next.js/TypeScript frontends with Node.js/Express APIs, secure authentication, and scalable data models. I excel at delivering subscription products with Stripe billing, multi-tenant patterns, cloud deployments, and robust CI/CD, observability, and security. I also build AI-powered features with OpenAI/Anthropic-style workflows, with guardrails, cost controls, and measurable user impact.

Alan Dickey

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Hi there! I'm Alan Dickey, a full-stack engineering leader based in Dallas, TX. I ship production SaaS from zero to one, blending Next.js/TypeScript frontends with Node.js/Express APIs, secure authentication, and scalable data models. I excel at delivering subscription products with Stripe billing, multi-tenant patterns, cloud deployments, and robust CI/CD, observability, and security. I also build AI-powered features with OpenAI/Anthropic-style workflows, with guardrails, cost controls, and measurable user impact.…Hi there! I'm Alan Dickey, a full-stack engineering leader based in Dallas, TX. I ship production SaaS from zero to one, blending Next.js/TypeScript frontends with Node.js/Express APIs, secure authentication, and scalable data models. I excel at delivering subscription products with Stripe billing, multi-tenant patterns, cloud deployments, and robust CI/CD, observability, and security. I also build AI-powered features with OpenAI/Anthropic-style workflows, with guardrails, cost controls, and measurable user impact.

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Hi there! I’m Alan Dickey, a full-stack engineering leader based in Dallas, TX. I ship production SaaS from zero to one, blending Next.js/TypeScript frontends with Node.js/Express APIs, secure authentication, and scalable data models.

I excel at delivering subscription products with Stripe billing, multi-tenant patterns, cloud deployments, and robust CI/CD, observability, and security. I also build AI-powered features with OpenAI/Anthropic-style workflows, with guardrails, cost controls, and measurable user impact.

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Lead Software Engineer at Rec Room

August 1, 2024 - April 1, 2026

Led end-to-end delivery of new product initiatives by building Node.js/Express REST APIs and TypeScript service layers with clear domain boundaries, reducing feature cycle time by ~30% through reusable patterns and templates. Designed multi-tenant authorization with RBAC (user/admin roles), JWT-based auth, and audit logging, improving incident response and enabling safe self-serve admin tooling. Implemented reliable event ingestion and webhook-style processing with idempotency keys, signature verification, and retry/backoff queues, cutting duplicate-processing defects by >80%. Built a clean, responsive UI in Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS, including admin dashboards for user management and analytics views aligned to product KPIs. Integrated LLM capabilities using OpenAI/Anthropic-style APIs for a core AI-assisted workflow, adding prompt versioning, evaluation harnesses, and token budgeting to keep costs predictable at scale. Improved AI feature reliability by adding caching and gu

Senior Software Engineer at JetBlue Airways

April 1, 2019 - July 1, 2024

Delivered customer-facing and internal platforms using Node.js/Express APIs and TypeScript, focusing on resilient REST endpoints, pagination/filtering, and backward-compatible versioning. Implemented role-based access controls and secure authentication flows using JWT and server-side session patterns, reducing authorization defects and tightening least-privilege access. Built and maintained responsive web experiences with React/Next.js and Tailwind CSS, improving performance via code-splitting and server rendering where appropriate. Integrated payment and billing-adjacent workflows with webhook-driven state transitions, applying signature verification, idempotency, and replay protection patterns to ensure consistency. Improved data access performance in PostgreSQL through indexing and query tuning; introduced Redis caching for hot paths, lowering p95 latency by ~25%. Added analytics instrumentation and operational dashboards, pairing structured logging with alert thresholds to reduce r

Software Engineer at Accenture

May 1, 2015 - March 1, 2019

Built and supported web applications with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js services, delivering RESTful integrations and maintainable service abstractions. Implemented authentication and authorization controls (RBAC concepts, secure session handling) and collaborated on security reviews aligned to OWASP guidance. Developed automated test coverage with Jest and API-level tests, improving release confidence and reducing regression defects across iterative deployments. Partnered with product and QA to translate requirements into shippable increments, producing clear technical documentation and handover notes for long-term maintenance.