Alex Garibay
Principal Engineer at Symbolic.ai
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Garibay is a Principal Engineer in Kansas City with 12 years of experience building resilient, real-time systems in Elixir and Phoenix. He’s an active contributor to Phoenix and Phoenix LiveView—adding features like live_isolated and improving event/form handling—and has applied that work to production use cases from payment ledgers processing millions per day to blockchain explorer caching in Blockscout. As a former engineering manager and founder, he’s led and trained teams, shortened CI pipelines (45 → 15 minutes), and built high-throughput content analysis and durable job-queueing systems. Equally fluent at low-level engineering (DUKPT/EMV decryption via bitwise Elixir) and crafting reusable LiveView UX components, he blends pragmatic architecture with hands-on delivery.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Engineering, B.S., Computer Engineering at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (31)
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elixir10
web-frameworks10
testing10
file-explorer10
phoenix-liveview10
explore10
phoenix-framework10
blockchain10
internet-explorer10
web-framework10
genserver10
api-server9
ethereum9
html9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 17 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the Phoenix LiveView framework, contributing to various aspects of the project. Their commits focused on improving the framework's functionality and developer experience. These changes included adding fully qualified references, updating Live View references to use official naming, and enhancing the handling of events and form submissions. Furthermore, they introduced features like `live_isolated`, a tool for isolated LiveView connection, which suggests a focus on testing and component reusability.
javascriptliveviewphoenix-liveviewexperiencesserver-rendered
phoenixframework/phoenix
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Peace of mind from prototype to production
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Phoenix Framework, implementing features and fixing bugs related to routing, static file handling, and schema generation. They modified the core router functionality to prevent errors with singleton resources and invalid route prefixes. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to umbrella applications and context app integration within the framework. Their work included updates to testing frameworks and build configurations.
realtimepeacephoenix-frameworkelixirprototype
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