Alec Robins
Co-Founder & CTO at Rally UXR
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Robins is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder/CTO with 11 years of experience building product-focused engineering organizations and shipping customer-facing web platforms. Based in New York, he led monetization and live-streaming product efforts as a Tech Lead at Facebook and drove frontend initiatives across HubSpot’s Sales Efficiency products. At Rally UXR he combined product and engineering experience to build a User Research CRM that automates outreach, scheduling, incentives, and participant management, replacing spreadsheets and saving teams hours weekly. He’s a pragmatic contributor to open-source testing tooling—adding robust tests and edge-case coverage to the widely used enzyme project—reflecting his attention to product quality and developer workflows. Alec blends hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and startup grit, informed by CS training from Vanderbilt and an accelerator stint at Y Combinator. Colleagues describe him as a builder who turns messy operational problems into repeatable, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
W22, W22 at Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Vanderbilt UniversityHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
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Github Skills (15)
test-runner10
javascript10
enzyme10
react10
testing10
mochajs9
chai9
callback6
asynchronous6
forms6
react-native6
redux-thunk6
react-redux6
checkbox6
redux6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
enzymejs/enzyme
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
JavaScript Testing utilities for React
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alec focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the `enzymejs/enzyme` repository. They added new tests for `setProps` and `setState` methods, ensuring proper functionality and the correct handling of callbacks. Further contributions involved adding tests to cover specific edge cases and error conditions, particularly related to callback functions within `setProps` and `setState`. They also incorporated the use of `batchedUpdates` in tests.
waitavajesttest-runnerreact-components
RallyHQ/rally-lite
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Rally Interview Scaffolding
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
scaffoldingreacttypescriptrally
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