Alex Dusenbery
Principal Software Engineer at edX
Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Dusenbery is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing scalable systems, APIs, and cross-team platform features that directly drove multimillion-dollar revenue at edX/2U. He combines deep backend, data pipeline, and DevOps expertise with hands-on ownership of high-impact products like fully-online Masters degrees, B2B subscriptions, and a novel prepaid learner-credit system used by hundreds of thousands of learners. At edX he led architecture and delivery across departments, mentored 20+ engineers, and contributed meaningful open-source work to the Open edX ecosystem—improving course discovery, grading/reporting, and developer tooling. Comfortable from infrastructure and CI/CD to frontend-API integration, he’s equally at home refactoring legacy systems or launching new monetizable platform capabilities. Based in Massachusetts, he pairs a research-informed CS master’s background with a practical track record of shipping reliable, revenue-generating education technology.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at UMass BostonBachelor of Arts Mathematics Sociology, Bachelor of Arts Mathematics Sociology at University of Rochester
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Github contributions (5)
openedx-unsupported/ecommerce
Mar 2018 - Jul 2022
(Deprecated) Service for managing edX's product catalog and handling orders for those products
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 22 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end services related to the edX ecommerce platform. Their work includes updating settings for JWT issuer configuration, fixing issues in enterprise catalog responses, and removing a trailing slash from a URL. The user also implemented and tested the use of Braze API-triggered campaigns for enterprise offer usage emails, demonstrating familiarity with integrations and email marketing systems. These changes directly impacted the functionality and configuration of the application.
djangoedxproduct-catalogbackend-servicehandling
openedx/edx-ora2
Dec 2017 - Mar 2020
Open Response Assessment Suite
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 38 commits, 62 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `edx-ora2` repository by modifying the code to address bugs and add new features. Their work included bumping the version, addressing serialization issues with training examples, and fixing code issues and typos. They implemented changes related to file uploads, including tracking the file size and allowing shared files between teammates. Furthermore, they made changes that enabled team features and adjusted CSS and JavaScript for the user interface.
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