Alec Brickner
Software Engineer at Plaid
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Brickner is a software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience and over six years focused on debugging, reliability, and full-stack feature development. He has moved up through backend roles at Primer.ai to a Staff Backend Engineer and now ships services at Plaid, combining strong systems thinking with product-oriented delivery. Alec’s work spans backend systems in Go and scalable services as well as front-end UX improvements—evidenced by contributions to the popular Habitica open-source project where he implemented UI features, data sync, and test updates. He has a strong academic foundation from Stanford (MS, Symbolic Systems) and UC San Diego (CS), and experience teaching security and theoretical CS courses as a graduate TA. Notably, his background includes productionizing ML and media-processing pipelines during internships at Google and Hulu, showing comfort with data-heavy, domain-specific engineering. He blends curious, research-informed problem solving with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems, Master of Science - MS, Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
vuejs310
vuejs210
vue10
nodejs10
bit10
habits10
mongodb-database9
express-ts9
mongodb9
html8
css8
testing7
git7
unity-game-engine6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HabitRPG/habitica
Mar 2019 - Apr 2021
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 9 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily contributed to the Habitica application, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. They made changes to the user profile, inventory management, and challenge features, indicating involvement in both user interface and server-side logic. Their work included ensuring data synchronization, implementing new features such as drag and drop for challenge tasks, and fixing bugs related to data consistency and display. The user also appears to have worked on test updates.
trackerexpressvuereactjsrole
alecbrick/habitica
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
habitgoalsreacttreatstracker
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