Aleksander Binion
Software Engineer at UChicago SUPERgroup
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAleksander Binion is a versatile software engineer with five years of experience building libraries, developer tooling, and web applications across startups, museums, and research labs. Currently at Duolingo, he brings a practical generalist’s lens honed at MongoDB—where he contributed to the high-profile mongodb/docs project as a technical writer and code reviewer—and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he slashed backend update times from days to minutes. He pairs full-stack skills (React, Flask, Docker, Mongo, AWS) with research-minded experimentation from work at UChicago SUPERgroup, including deploying customized Jupyter notebooks for behavioral studies. Trained in both computer science and visual art at the University of Chicago, Aleksander blends technical rigor with an eye for usability and documentation, making complex systems more reliable and easier to understand.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Visual Art, GPA: 3.702, Bachelor's degree, Visual Art, GPA: 3.702 at University of Chicago
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
technical-writing10
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/docs
May 2022 - Nov 2022
The MongoDB Documentation Project Source.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 review, 39 commits, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Aleksander primarily focused on reviewing and refining documentation related to MongoDB's documentation project. Their contributions involved code reviews and suggestions for prose improvements, variable casing, and overall clarity. They also addressed build errors and incorporated feedback to enhance the quality of the documentation, specifically relating to CSFLE and QE. The user's work directly impacted the accuracy and usability of the documentation.
mongodbproject-documentation
biniona-mongodb/docs-node
Mar 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:219 pushes, 61 branches in 1 year 3 months
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