Alek Storm
Software Engineer at Cargado
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlek Storm is a Chicago-based software engineer with 15 years building large-scale, real-time and distributed systems across startups and enterprise teams. He blends deep multilingual engineering (JS/TS, Ruby, Clojure, Python, Scala, Java, C/C++) with practical product impact—shipping ML-based duplicate-detection that cut bad data by 90% at Flexport and creating live vessel-tracking features under crisis timelines. His background spans data ingestion, streaming, and web frameworks (notably contributing to widely used projects like Tornado and Python HTTP/2 tooling), and he regularly drives cross-team API and CI/CD improvements that speed delivery. Trained in both computer science and linguistics, he brings a rare mix of systems-level rigor and language/phonetics insight to NLP and data problems. He is selectively open to Chicago-based opportunities that leverage his expertise in big data, distributed computation, and developer toolchains.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
LSA Institute at University of Colorado at BoulderComputer Science Linguistics, Computer Science Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
asynchronous10
python10
testing10
tornado10
http10
template-engine10
http-server10
hpack10
tls129
tls139
mtls9
libtls9
html6
datadog6
aws-cli6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tornadoweb/tornado
Jul 2011 - Jun 2012
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alek made several contributions to the Tornado web framework, including enhancements to the template engine and HTTP server functionality. They added features like multi-line template directives and a comment construct. The user refactored code related to HTTP requests, file handling, and exception handling. They also improved the test suite and added new testing capabilities.
pythonaiohttptornadoasyncwebclient
python-hyper/hyper
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
HTTP/2 for Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits in 22 days
Contributions summary:Alek implemented support for Python 2.7 and moved Python 2/3 compatibility logic into a dedicated module. They made changes to the HTTP/2 HPACK and Huffman code implementations to improve compatibility, and also modified server and test code to work with the new Python compatibility layer. Additionally, the user refactored DATA frame padding calculations for clarity and made alterations to TLS and integration tests.
http-clientpython
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