Alejandra S
Founding Engineer at FastAPI Cloud
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandra S is a self-taught founding engineer with four years of hands-on experience building and shipping full-stack web products from Spain. She has led frontend development for a FastAPI Labs dashboard while contributing backend services, CI/CD, migrations, and operational tooling, and introduced Playwright e2e testing patterns from scratch. An active open-source contributor to the widely used FastAPI ecosystem, she improved test suites and refactored user APIs for the Full Stack FastAPI Template, strengthening security and maintainability. Comfortable across JavaScript frameworks, React migrations, Tailwind/shadcn UI, and Python backends, she combines practical production delivery with strong documentation and UX sensibilities. Outside code, she’s an enthusiastic photographer and full-time cat steward, bringing curiosity and a growth mindset to fast-moving product teams.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Web Programming Computer Science, Professional Certificate in Computer Science for Web Programming Computer Science at Harvard OnlineAcademic and Cultural Exchange Program English Language, Academic and Cultural Exchange Program English Language at Bayswater
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (24)
sqlmodel10
fastapi10
postgresql10
pytest10
apidoc10
python10
testing10
api10
backend10
github-ci9
security9
githubaction-workflow9
documentation8
openapi8
asyncio8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
fastapi/full-stack-fastapi-template
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Full-stack web application template with FastAPI, React, SQLModel, PostgreSQL, Vite, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, FastAPI Cloud, and Docker Compose.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 288 PRs, 348 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alejandra primarily focused on refactoring the Users API and dependencies, improving the structure and maintainability of the backend code. They also made significant changes to the item and user management endpoints, ensuring the integrity and security of user data and item operations. Furthermore, the user was involved in setting up user password reset functionalities and improving the overall application's security. They also contributed to the modification of existing code related to user and item functionalities.
docker-composefastapifull-stackpostgresqlreact
fastapi/fastapi
Dec 2023 - Jun 2026
FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:89 reviews, 698 PRs, 709 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alejandra primarily contributed to improving and simplifying tests within the FastAPI framework. Their work involved refactoring existing tests across various tutorial sections, including background tasks, bigger applications, body handling, dependencies, and request-related parameters. Additionally, the user added a script for managing GitHub topic repositories and updated external links in the documentation. The user's contributions centered on test optimization and improving the documentation and tooling of the FastAPI project.
fastapipythonjsonswagger-uiredoc
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