Alec Hipshear
Engineering Manager at Dagster Labs
Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Hipshear is an engineering leader with 18 years of experience delivering scalable software, currently guiding Dagster Labs as Engineering Manager. He has a track record of building and stabilizing teams, shipping fast and safely, and developing engineers’ careers, including running hiring loops, hackathons, and annual reviews. Previously at Twilio, he led three engineering teams focused on Journeys and related products, growing the group from 4 to 21 engineers, 3 managers, and 1 QA over 18 months, and steering multi-year tech plans that included AI integration. His background spans fintech/payments, customer data platforms, and content delivery, with hands-on experience in data engineering, large-scale infrastructure, and full-stack development. He has contributed to open-source-like projects (React-Rails) by hardening tests, improving asset reloading, and stabilizing interop between React and Rails, reflecting a bias for reliability and maintainability. Based in Royal Oak, Michigan, Alec blends technical depth with leadership to turn evolving missions into delivered products at scale.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems at Grand Valley State University
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Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails510
rails10
react10
jsx10
turbolinks10
javascript9
javascripts9
ruby8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
reactjs/react-rails
Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 25 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on resolving intermittent test failures within the `react-rails` repository, related to timing issues with Turbolinks and React.js integration. They addressed these issues by implementing various workarounds, including adding sleep statements and modifying the test setup to ensure proper loading and rendering of components. Their contributions also involved fixing asset reloading in development mode, ensuring changes to React components are reflected. They also created the installation generator and added changes to allow the use of jbuilder-based strings as properties.
rails-viewsreactwebpackercontrollerspipeline
xionon/bash-config
Mar 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:12 pushes in 6 years 5 months
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