Alex Charland
Senior Software Engineer at Northwestern Mutual
River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Charland is a Senior Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building production-grade React, TypeScript, and Node.js applications across enterprise and startup environments. He currently develops at Northwestern Mutual and has a track record of improving operational metrics—such as cutting an insurance application cycle by 13.3% and slashing CI/CD unit test log size by 95.5%—through pragmatic engineering and automation. Comfortable across the full stack, Alex has delivered customer-facing Next.js apps, React Native mobile solutions, and Nest.js/Apollo-backed services, while also enhancing test coverage with Jest and Cypress. He mentors junior engineers, leads code reviews, and bridges product and infra work (Terraform, AzureAD, Kafka, AWS) to bring features from planning to MVP and beyond. Outside of work he runs freelance projects and side businesses, demonstrating a blend of product thinking and hands-on engineering.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (39)
react-router8
player8
redux7
grid7
react6
full-stack6
custom-domain6
planet5
pong5
trainer5
unpack5
dm4
zlib4
weather-data4
installers4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ac3charland/bsk-mastersound
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
Portfolio site for recording engineer Bruce Kasprzyk
Contributions:10 PRs, 33 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
brucerecording
ac3charland/jacob-portfolio
Jun 2020 - Feb 2024
Portfolio for percussionist & music educator Jacob Bicknase
Contributions:52 PRs, 71 pushes, 33 branches in 3 years 8 months
musicjavascriptfor-portfolio
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