Alejandro Dustet
Staff Developer at Shopify
United States
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Top SchoolAlejandro Dustet is a Staff Developer with 12 years of experience building reliable mobile and web applications, currently shaping platform engineering at Shopify. His background spans iOS and Android mobile development, Ruby on Rails full‑stack work, and leadership roles where he prioritized code quality and agile delivery. He has hands‑on experience fixing complex build and dependency issues in privacy‑focused open source projects like COVID Safe Paths, contributing tests and refactors that improved maintainability. Alejandro blends individual contributor craftsmanship with team leadership gained at companies from startups to consultancy thoughtbot, and has a strong academic foundation in computer science from the University of Havana. Known for rooting out technical debt and pragmatic design, he often surfaces subtle architecture fixes (like store accessors to break cyclic dependencies) that prevent future problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 4.26/5, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, 4.26/5 at University of Havana
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (19)
mobile-development10
react-native10
typescript10
mobile-application10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
javascript9
redux8
ios7
android-development7
wpf6
spree6
ruby-on-rails6
cucumber6
ruby6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Path-Check/safeplaces-dct-app
Jul 2020 - Aug 2020
COVID Safe Paths (based on Private Kit) is an open and privacy preserving system to use personal information to battle COVID
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:14 commits, 28 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alejandro focused on enhancing and maintaining the mobile application. They addressed build-specific issues by conditionally starting background services based on the build strategy (GPS vs. Bluetooth). The user also fixed a cyclic dependency issue by introducing a store accessor and refactored code to remove obsolete data migration logic. Additionally, the user worked on improving the codebase through a fix for typos and type warnings within the onboarding flow and also added comprehensive tests to the testing suite.
privacybattlepathspersonal-informationpersonal-use
aledustet/aledustet.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:25 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
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