Alaric Whitney
Lead Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlaric Whitney is a Lead Engineer at Target with over a decade of telecom and voice engineering roots and six years focused on software leadership and delivery. He blends hands-on backend development—demonstrated by contributions to the open-source on-call scheduler GoAlert—with coaching skills that help teams communicate simply and ship reliably. At Target he drives engineering efforts that translate complex operational needs into maintainable, Go-compatible code and pragmatic tooling. Prior roles in telecommunications and network administration give him a systems-oriented perspective on reliability and escalation workflows. Colleagues know him as a developer who spots compatibility and linting issues early and mentors peers to prevent recurring operational friction. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs enterprise-scale experience with a preference for clear, actionable communication.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Metropolitan State University
Github Skills (6)
go10
testing10
error-handling9
github-ci8
githubaction-workflow8
xml7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
target/goalert
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Open source on-call scheduling, automated escalations, and notifications so you never miss a critical alert
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:274 reviews, 31 commits, 37 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alaric primarily addressed issues related to Go language compatibility and dependencies within the `goalert` project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on fixing code to ensure compatibility with specific Go versions, specifically 1.19, and modifying code to address linting issues. Additionally, the user contributed to code improvements across the project, including fixes to handle errors and address extra newlines.
alertcriticalescalationson-callscheduling
go-vela/vela-k6
Jul 2023 - Jan 2025
K6 Plugin for Vela (Target's official Pipeline Automation Framework)
Contributions:1 release, 34 reviews, 34 PRs in 1 year 6 months
applicationgolanggolang-applicationk6performance
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