Alex Cottner
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Cottner is a versatile software engineer and technical lead based in Denver with two years of formal experience in senior and leadership roles and a decade-plus track record of progressive engineering impact. He has led enrollment processing and data architecture efforts, and currently serves as Data Architect/Tech Lead at Treez while holding an active role at Mozilla, demonstrating comfort across full-stack, database, and platform work. Alex moves between object-oriented application design, web development, and data-focused systems, quickly learning new languages and tools to solve novel technical challenges. He brings practical leadership from prior senior roles at Flowhub, Lumeris, and Ansira, balancing hands-on coding with mentoring and project delivery. Not obvious from titles alone, he progressed rapidly from field-facing technical support roles into senior engineering positions, showing a blend of customer empathy and backend rigor. Based in Denver with a Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois Springfield, he thrives on turning ambiguous problems into maintainable, scalable solutions.
2 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Illinois Springfield
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
indexeddb9
error-handling9
file-handling9
testing8
telemetry8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexcottner/kinto-admin
Oct 2023 - Feb 2024
Kinto Web Administration Console
Contributions:11 releases, 2 PRs, 143 pushes in 3 months
mozilla/autograph-experiments
Nov 2025 - Apr 2026
Experimental code and tools for the autograph dev team
Contributions:2 releases, 12 reviews, 1 PR in 5 months
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