Alex Adkins
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Adkins is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building full-stack applications and APIs, currently contributing to Capital One after a multi-year senior developer role at CGI. He specializes in Java, C#, C++, SQL and JavaScript, with practical experience delivering features on Agile/Scrum teams and improving developer-facing docs and authentication flows. Alex has hands-on experience across web presentation and backend security—his GitHub work on the mashery/iodocs project added UI polish and early OAuth2 support, showing attention to both UX and secure integration. A Computer Science graduate from East Tennessee State University, he pairs strong customer-service communication skills with a track record of shipping pragmatic, maintainable code. Based in Kingsport, TN, he brings a steady blend of backend rigor and front-end detail-orientation that helps bridge engineering and product needs.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
East Tennessee State University
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Github Skills (9)
css10
api10
apidoc10
oauth10
javascript9
nodejs8
pugjs7
pug7
expressjs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mashery/iodocs
Jun 2013 - Aug 2014
Interactive API documentation system
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the interactive API documentation system. Their work involved modifying stylesheets (CSS) to refine the presentation of method names and URIs, and implementing features such as underlining and emphasizing methods. The user also made changes to the API documentation templates (api.jade) to enable HTML tagging within JSON files and updated the system's codebase to include preliminary OAuth2 support with both authorization-code and client_credentials flows. These changes show a focus on both front-end presentation and back-end authentication.
apiopenapiapi-documentation
alexadkins/olinjs
Jan 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 12 days
springjavascriptolinsecond
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