Alex Davies
Self Employed
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarAlex Davies is a freelance software engineer and Bayesian-rationalist with 13 years of experience building back-end systems and contributing to open-source projects. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, he blends pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for elegant, provable solutions and has applied that mindset to projects like a production-minded fork of "Minecraft in 500 lines of python" where he implemented object-oriented blocks, object registration, PEP8 compliance, and bug fixes. Comfortable operating end-to-end, Alex focuses on core architecture and maintainable code while favoring community-driven development. He brings an independent, research-minded approach to freelance engagements, often turning compact prototypes into reusable engine components.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
game-development10
object-oriented-programming10
python10
pyglet9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithm7
algorithms7
categories6
categorical-data6
excel6
github6
forloop6
counter6
dataframe6
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
traverseda/pycraft
Apr 2016 - Jun 2019
A fork of "Minecraft in 500 lines of python" intended to someday be used as a real engine, instead of as a learning example.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 49 PRs, 62 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on the core development of the pycraft project. They implemented object-oriented blocks, added code for loading in objects and object registration. The user updated the project to be pep8 compliant. They also fixed a bug related to the visibility of stone blocks. Further contributions include changing the project name and updating the README.
minecraftpythonlines
traverseda/OpenFontIcons
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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