Alexander Mann
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Mann is a Senior Engineering Manager at Apollo GraphQL with a decade of experience evolving from senior engineer to leadership roles within the same company. He combines backend systems expertise and open-source contributions—notably to apollographql/federation and improvements to the Apollo CLI authentication and automation—with a people-first approach that prioritizes developer growth. A University of Toronto graduate in mathematics, computer science, and fine art, he pairs analytical rigor with creative problem-solving and entrepreneurial experience as founder/co‑founder of small ventures. Based in Washington, DC, he balances technical leadership with hands-on hobbies like mountain climbing, cycling, cooking, and woodworking, bringing a craft-minded mindset to building teams and reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
configuration-management10
command-line-interface10
commandline-interface10
user-authentication10
authentication10
commandline10
command-line10
rust10
cli10
error-handling9
testing8
github-action-workflow7
apollo7
wp-graphql7
github-ci7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/federation
May 2020 - Jun 2020
🌐 Build and scale a single data graph across multiple services with Apollo's federation gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 27 commits, 3 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the backend of the Apollo CLI, focusing on the authentication setup process. Their work involved implementing new features like reading secure information for authentication and adding error handling. They also made improvements to the command-line interface, refactoring the code for better clarity and fixing bugs related to terminal input and configuration loading. Additionally, the user demonstrated knowledge of automation through the use of Rust Fmt and Prettier formatting tools.
graph-datascaleapollo-federationgatewayfederation
datamill-co/target-postgres
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
A Singer.io Target for Postgres
Contributions:2 reviews, 496 commits, 186 PRs in 2 years 2 months
singer-iosingeretlpostgresstream
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