Alex Birdsall
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Birdsall is a full-stack software engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience crafting thoughtfully designed systems and elegant, human-readable code. He blends frontend polish and UX sensibility with backend integrations and infrastructure work—recently contributing feature and refactor work to Airbyte’s leading open-source data integration platform. At startups like Artisan he shipped complex workflow engines, custom authentication and rate-limiting, and improved developer tooling, showing a knack for both product-facing features and gritty performance/db work. Trained in both humanities and technical disciplines, he approaches engineering like a clockmaker—enjoying the hidden connections between pieces to produce maintainable, reusable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree English Language and Literature; minor in Music Theory, Bachelor's degree English Language and Literature; minor in Music Theory at Cornell CollegeStatistics Math and Computer Science, Statistics Math and Computer Science at Portland Community CollegeMiddlebury Union High School
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data-integration10
react10
api-design9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:157 reviews, 37 commits, 84 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the Airbyte web application's features and functionality. Their contributions included adding advanced mode toggles and related hooks, styling workspace settings forms using SCSS modules, and refactoring existing code for improved maintainability. They also worked on the dbt cloud integration, including adding a dropdown for job selection and handling email verification. These changes indicate a focus on both front-end UI elements and backend service integration.
operationpythondataintegration-platformdata-warehouse
airbytehq/airbyte-platform
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
The platform that powers Airbyte. Please file issues in https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 20 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Airbyte platform by implementing and refactoring frontend components and backend logic. They focused on adding features related to the Free Connector Program, including enrollment success notifications and UI enhancements. Their work also involved refactoring existing code, improving API interactions, and creating utility functions for asynchronous operations.
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