Alex Dubowski
Senior Software Engineer at Cooklang
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Dubowski is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years' experience building web platforms, DevOps tooling, and reliable production systems across startups and scale-ups. Based in Dublin, he blends hands-on backend and SRE expertise—most recently at Workday and previously leading SRE teams at BrowserStack—with a strong foundation in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript dating back to freelance work. An open-source builder, he created Cooklang and contributes to notable projects like ActiveModel::Serializers, focusing on code quality, refactoring, and test improvements. Known as a relationship-builder and knowledge-sharer, he combines technical leadership with practical engineering practices to improve maintainability and developer experience. Trained in physics and mathematics at MIPT, he brings analytical rigor and a habit of tackling subtle design and style issues that pay dividends in large codebases.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Physics and Mathematics, M.S., Physics and Mathematics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)
Russian, English
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Github Skills (16)
ruby10
json10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ubuntu10
angularjs9
angularjs-directive9
serializer9
rubocop8
test-automation8
rspec6
javascript6
angular-ui6
firebase6
ngoptions6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rails-api/active_model_serializers
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
ActiveModel::Serializer implementation and Rails hooks
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on code style improvements and refactoring within the Active Model Serializers project. They addressed RuboCop style violations, correcting indentation, hash styles, and removing redundant curly braces. The user also made modifications to existing tests across the project, including improvements to the error handling and pagination tests. Their work centered around improving the code quality and maintainability of the Rails-API project.
rails-apirailsresource-serializerrubyserializer
cooklang/cooklang-import
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
A command line tool to import recipes into Cooklang format
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 13 commits in 2 months
command-line-toolrecipespythoncooklangcommand-line
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