Aleks Rutins
Tech Support Specialist at Burr and Burton Academy
Arlington, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolAleks Rutins is a pragmatic tech support specialist and full‑stack tinkerer with nine years of hands‑on experience building and troubleshooting software and systems from Arlington, Vermont. Currently supporting Burr and Burton Academy, Aleks pairs day‑to‑day IT support with open‑source development work—most notably contributing a PHP and Laravel provider (plus a Zig provider) to the popular Nixpacks project, improving build, detection, and static asset handling for containerized apps. He enjoys writing code that occasionally surprises even himself by working, and brings a practical, maker’s mindset to integrating developer tooling with user needs. Ambitious and curious, Aleks is continuing his formal education at Hope College while keeping a steady stream of real‑world engineering contributions.
9 years of coding experience
Burr and Burton AcademyHope College
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Github Skills (14)
php10
zig10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
buildpack9
docker8
dockers8
nix8
webassembly6
nodejs6
javascript6
llvm6
clang6
rust5
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
railwayapp/nixpacks
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
App source + Nix packages + Docker = Image
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 52 commits, 25 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Aleks primarily contributed to the development of a PHP provider for the Nixpacks project. This included implementing support for both vanilla PHP applications and the Laravel framework. They worked on the detection, installation, build, and start commands necessary for PHP applications. The user also integrated static asset handling into the project. Furthermore, they added a Zig provider.
docker-imagerustnixosnix-packagesdocker
aleksrutins/valapkg
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
A package manager for Vala projects.
Contributions:84 commits, 2 PRs, 75 pushes in 1 year 11 months
glib2sarifpackage-managerpackagesmeson
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