Alec Brunelle
Software Developer at Stripe
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlec Brunelle is a seasoned software developer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and integrations, currently at Stripe where he led a first-class Billing tax integration that saved merchants significant remittance errors. He has driven platform-level improvements at Unity—cutting release ship time by 10x via a GraphQL API—and built scalable job and queuing systems earlier in his career. Alec contributes to prominent open-source projects (e.g., Bull and Ackee), focusing on backend robustness, rate-limiting, CORS, and subscription/billing features, and he pairs that with clear documentation and tests. Comfortable across full-stack responsibilities, he’s also a published engineering writer who turns technical work into accessible guidance that drives product adoption.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduated with a specialization in Computer Science having completed the required course count., Graduated with a specialization in Computer Science having completed the required course count. at St. Theresa’s High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (28)
api-rest10
billing10
javascript10
rate-limiting10
subscribe10
back-end-development10
redis10
python10
api-design10
stripe10
restful-api10
django10
testing10
message-queue10
subscriber10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dj-stripe/dj-stripe
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
dj-stripe automatically syncs your Stripe Data to your local database as pre-implemented Django Models allowing you to use the Django ORM, in your code, to work with the data making it easier and faster.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 28 PRs, 102 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily contributed to the `dj-stripe` project by implementing features related to subscription management, particularly the addition of a `charge_immediately` option to the `SubscriptionRestView`. They added related documentation and tests, showing a focus on API endpoint functionality. Furthermore, the user added a `tax_percent` field to the `CreateSubscriptionSerializer`, extending the project's billing capabilities. In addition, the user performed several documentation tasks.
django-modelsdjango-ormlocal-databasestripepython
OptimalBits/bull
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Premium Queue package for handling distributed jobs and messages in NodeJS.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 42 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily contributed to the `bull` job queue library by adding documentation and tests. They improved the documentation for key methods like `moveToCompleted` and also added tests to verify the functionality. Further, they implemented the `discard` option for the rate limiter feature and made associated modifications to the lua scripts used by the library. These changes appear focused on enhancing the library's usability and robustness.
nodejsmessage-queuejob-queuejobmessage
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