Summary
Alec Davidson is a software engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building production systems at Meta, Squarespace, and Lifion by ADP. He is polyglot across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, and Go, and brings a practical open-source mindset demonstrated by contributions to Node.js, react-testing-library, and a published Babel plugin that implements proper tail calls. Alec spans both core platform work and developer tooling, improving documentation tooling and testing libraries as well as shipping language-level optimizations. His background from Fullstack Academy and Brown underpins a pragmatic approach to engineering problems, favoring reliability and measurable improvements in performance and developer experience. Notably, he has tackled low-level issues like memory sizing for JS objects and stack-space reduction techniques that are uncommon in typical web-focused profiles.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Fullstack Academy
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Brown University