Alejandro Aspinwall
Senior Software Engineer at Mozilla
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Aspinwall is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of full-stack experience, currently shaping frontend architecture at Mozilla after leading large-scale micro-frontend initiatives at Amazon that supported over a million daily users. He blends strong frontend expertise in TypeScript, React and Redux with backend skills in Go, Java, Kotlin and serverless AWS, and has a track record of cutting build times and development cycles through pragmatic engineering and template-driven standards. Alejandro pairs product-minded engineering with stakeholder collaboration, having redesigned monoliths into modular micro-frontends, implemented operational triage systems, and driven accessibility improvements at scale. His background in immersive audio, game and film production and PhD research in binaural technologies gives him a unique perspective on realtime systems, multimedia pipelines and human-centered experiences. Outside of work he composes music and experiments with hands-on projects like artisanal pizza, reflecting a maker’s mindset that surfaces in his engineering leadership.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Research Doctorate Music, Research Doctorate Music at The University of ManchesterFull Stack Web Development Diploma Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Diploma Computer Software Engineering at Concordia UniversityAudio Engineering And Music Production Music Production, Audio Engineering And Music Production Music Production at Academia de Música FermattaPhD Sound Recording Music Research, PhD Sound Recording Music Research at McGill University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (18)
faunadb9
backend9
netlify7
thunderbird7
react7
frontend7
graphql6
cli6
typescript6
nextjs6
command-line-interface5
dependency-management4
continuous-testing4
redux4
dotnet4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aaspinwall/collab
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Collab project: We're currently building a decision maker app with Next.js on the frontend and graphQL / faunaDB on the backend.
Contributions:12 reviews, 113 commits, 105 PRs in 3 months
makernext-jsreactfaunadbdecision
aaspinwall/devPortfolio
Jan 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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