Arlene Cory
Owner at Beauty and Beyond Skin Care Center
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Cory is a Full Stack Engineer with 12 years of experience building products and companies across startups and large tech firms, currently at EvolutionaryScale in San Francisco. He combines hands-on expertise in React, Node.js, TypeScript, serverless architectures and Electron with a founder's mindset from launching Ava Associates and Teasit, where his open-source JS libraries amassed 6.7M downloads and were adopted by companies like MongoDB and Microsoft. His background includes engineering roles at Facebook and Discord, plus leadership in developer communities and large events (HackingEDU), reflecting strong product, technical hiring, and cross-functional collaboration skills. Alex is results-driven and detail-oriented, known for turning frustration into curiosity and hunting down answers independently. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with production-grade full-stack delivery, frequently shipping integrations for clients such as Best Buy, Kroger, and Discord. Based in SF, he brings both strategic vision and a relentless focus on personal growth to technical challenges.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Finance Finance Business Analytics, Master of Finance Finance Business Analytics at The Wharton School
php, javascript, java, bash, node.js, react.js, python
Stackoverflow
11,221reputation
3.9mreached
58answers
64questions
babeljs
top-5%
jsx
top-5%
javascript
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
css-in-js10
http10
csrf10
authentication10
styled-components10
usefetch10
dialog10
dropzone10
react-portal10
rest-client10
file-upload10
bundler10
declarative10
hybrid10
auth10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
iamthesiz/urs
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
useRefState, for getting correct values even when in callback functions, and blocking state updates on unmounted components
Contributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 13 pushes in 10 months
reactstate-managementcorrectcallback-functionsupdates
HackingEDU/hackingedu-website
Aug 2014 - Mar 2015
This is the website for the hackathon HackingEDU SF Bay Area
Contributions:389 commits in 7 months
reactbay-areacssjavascriptbay
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