Alex Collins
Principal Software Engineer at intuit
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Collins is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in cloud-native and Kubernetes-focused delivery, currently contributing to Argo Projects at Intuit from Mountain View. He blends full‑stack development, backend systems, and DevOps expertise—shipping features from UI tooltips to CI/CD automation and Helm chart publishing. Alex has made notable open-source contributions to high-impact projects like Argo CD, Workflows, Events, and argo-ui, improving directory recursion, workflow reliability, and developer experience. Comfortable across Go, Java, and React stacks, he pairs pragmatic bug fixes and test improvements with larger architectural work on CI pipelines and event-driven systems. Colleagues would describe him as the kind of engineer who quietly improves developer workflows and product reliability while keeping a keen eye on code quality and automation.
14 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (55)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
javascript10
client-library10
docker10
component-design10
testing10
kustomize10
authentication10
user-authentication10
dockers10
tooltip10
cicd10
java10
datatip10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-ui
Mar 2019 - May 2022
Argoproj shared React components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 43 commits, 73 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on developing and enhancing UI components within the `argo-ui` repository. Their contributions included integrating tooltips using the Tippy.js library, abstracting the tooltip component for reusability, and making adjustments to the top bar and navigation bar UI elements. Furthermore, they addressed some visual issues and introduced versioning to the navigation bar. The user also added an errors badge and help icon to improve the user interface.
argoprojreactreact-components
argoproj/argo-workflows
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Workflow Engine for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 releases, 3136 reviews, 3030 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions centered around bug fixes and code corrections within the Argo Workflows project. They were involved in addressing issues related to login instructions in the UI, fixing offloading bugs related to the correct deletion of data and fixing bugs related to cron workflows. Further contributions include the removal of quotation marks in the UI. The user also worked on upgrading the project to Golang 1.13 and improving the test suite by fixing various issues in different test cases.
workflow-automationdagworkflow-enginemachine-learninghpa
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