Adam Alexander
Principal Engineer at Salesforce
Fishers, Indiana, United States
Summary
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SeniorAdam Alexander is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience designing lean, modular architectures and operational automation across cloud, web, and mobile platforms. He excels at marrying cost-effective engineering with rigorous DevOps practices—Terraform, Chef/Ansible, containerization, CI/CD, and monitoring—to deliver self-healing, high-performance systems. At Salesforce and prior roles he led platform and operations architecture efforts, maintained the popular Fuel UX open-source UI library, and drove large-scale migrations and optimizations that saved millions in cloud spend. Known for pragmatic security and testing discipline, he routinely turns complex cross-platform challenges into maintainable, automated solutions. Based in Fishers, Indiana, he combines enterprise-level consulting with hands-on implementation, often mentoring teams and running deep technical workshops to transfer knowledge.
17 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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116answers
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html
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uikit
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ruby-on-rails
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iphone
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jquery
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cocoa-touch
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Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
javascript10
jquery10
bootstrap10
patch10
html10
uikit10
bootstra10
iphone10
ios9
git9
objective-c9
cocoa9
amazon-s39
qunit9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ExactTarget/fuelux
Jul 2012 - Apr 2015
As of March 2019, this repository is read-only as Salesforce has archived the FuelUX open-source UI framework and will no longer be supported.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:156 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Fuel UX framework by converting existing tests and starting to refactor them. They updated and added unit tests, specifically focusing on the initialization of various Bootstrap plugins, like modals, dropdowns, and carousels. In addition, the user updated the test harness and made modifications for AMD module compatibility, suggesting they worked on the core components and their testing infrastructure.
marchui-frameworksupportedsalesforcesalesforce-lightning
adamalex/terraform_sample
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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