Alex Dunae
Senior Software Developer at Tickit Event Services
Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAlex Dunae is a senior full-stack software developer with 19 years building production web systems, currently at Bentley Systems and co-founder/tech lead of a high-throughput ticketing platform that handled millions in annual sales. He excels at connecting product strategy, UX research and data architecture to implementation, iterating quickly between specs, design and code to produce polished, user-friendly solutions. Deep expertise in e-commerce and payments is evidenced by meaningful open-source contributions to Active Merchant, where he expanded gateway support and improved tokenization and AVS handling. Alex favors the long view on code quality—careful refactoring and testing to reduce future cost—and has led teams, hired and mentored juniors, and taught web app development. Based in Courtenay, BC, he pairs practical engineering with an eye for communications and domain-driven design in regulated industries like aviation.
19 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
French
Stackoverflow
1,360reputation
251kreached
14answers
15questions
Github Skills (23)
apidoc10
testing10
css10
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
ruby10
api10
html10
activemerchant10
algorithm9
algorithms9
documentation9
nokogiri9
stripe8
activerecord6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
holidays/holidays
Nov 2007 - Oct 2014
A collection of Ruby methods to deal with statutory and other holidays. You deserve a holiday!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:189 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on adding functionality to handle holidays, including calculating and storing holiday dates within a Ruby library. Their work involved modifying the `lib/holidays.rb` and `test/test_holidays.rb` files, adding new methods such as `easter` and incorporating new holiday definitions. The user's contributions indicate a focus on enhancing the project's core logic and expanding its capabilities to manage statutory holidays.
ruby
premailer/premailer
Nov 2009 - May 2016
Preflight for HTML email
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:219 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed primarily to testing and documentation within the Premailer project, which converts HTML to inline CSS for email compatibility. Their commits added new test files for various aspects, including handling accented characters and plain text conversions. They also updated documentation related to gemcutter, demonstrating involvement in both core functionality and project management.
html-emailpremailernokogiricssruby
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