Alec Hipshear
Engineering Manager at Dagster Labs
Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Hipshear is an engineering manager with nearly two decades in tech and 14 years of hands-on experience building high-scale systems across payments, customer data platforms, and content delivery. He’s led and scaled teams from individual contributors to multi-team organizations, recently managing managers and growing an org from 4 to 21 engineers while owning roadmap, hiring loops, and cross-team boundaries. Technically grounded, Alec has shipped high-volume services, data infrastructure handling hundreds of terabytes, and integration work spanning microservices, streaming, and front-end Rails/React tooling. He enjoys stabilizing teams and careers—running hackathons, shaping review processes, and mentoring engineers to craft clear technical designs. Alec also contributes to open source React-Rails integrations, having solved tricky Turbolinks/React timing and asset-reload issues that improve developer experience. Based in Royal Oak, MI, he combines pragmatic operational ownership with a knack for turning vague missions into measurable product momentum.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Systems at Grand Valley State University
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Github Skills (7)
ruby-rails10
rails10
react10
jsx10
turbolinks10
javascript9
ruby8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reactjs/react-rails
Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 25 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on resolving intermittent test failures within the `react-rails` repository, related to timing issues with Turbolinks and React.js integration. They addressed these issues by implementing various workarounds, including adding sleep statements and modifying the test setup to ensure proper loading and rendering of components. Their contributions also involved fixing asset reloading in development mode, ensuring changes to React components are reflected. They also created the installation generator and added changes to allow the use of jbuilder-based strings as properties.
asset-pipelinerailsreactwebpackerreact-rails
xionon/bash-config
Mar 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:19 pushes in 11 years
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