Alex Sharp
Software Engineer
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Sharp is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 17 years of experience building and scaling startups across payments, social investing, and enterprise software. As Head of Product Technology at Divorce.com since 2022, he guides product strategy and engineering to drive growth while maintaining reliability and a strong user experience. His career spans leadership roles at Zaarly, Upfront Ventures, Nuon, Commonstock, and FrothLogic, where he delivered web and mobile experiences, built payments and internal platforms, and led cross-functional teams through rapid growth. He is an active open-source contributor, with notable work refactoring and validating intervals in the Ruby ice_cube recurrence library, demonstrating a hands-on approach to robust data modeling. A serial founder, including Octocall, he blends entrepreneurial grit with technical depth and broad language experience (Ruby, Go, Node, iOS). Based in Nashville, Tennessee, he bridges product vision with platform engineering to turn ambitious ideas into scalable software.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
refactoring10
ruby10
rspec9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ice-cube-ruby/ice_cube
May 2014 - May 2014
Ruby Date Recurrence Library - Allows easy creation of recurrence rules and fast querying
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on refactoring and improving interval validation within the ice_cube_ruby/ice_cube repository. Their contributions included adding interval validation, refactoring the validation logic, and ensuring that validation is run during initialization. These changes encompassed multiple files, focusing on ensuring correct data types and raising appropriate errors when handling interval inputs, specifically for the ruby-based time recurrence library. The user also made changes to the unit tests to ensure the validation of inputs.
queryingrecurrencerecurrence-rulesrubyrules
ajsharp/mongoid-pagination
Feb 2012 - May 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
scopespaginationmongoidmongoosemongodb
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