Alex Eitzman
Law Student at New York University School of Law
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Eitzman is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems at major tech companies including Microsoft and Google, now pivoting into law as a student at NYU School of Law. He has hands-on experience integrating cloud infrastructure with application code—contributing to the widely used golang/oauth2 library by improving AWS credential handling to avoid unnecessary metadata calls. His background spans embedded and high-reliability systems (Garmin, Northrop Grumman) to machine-learning research on legal texts, giving him a rare blend of systems engineering, data-driven research, and domain curiosity. At Microsoft he progressed from intern to Software Engineer II, demonstrating steady technical growth and ownership on production services. Now based in the Greater Seattle area, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to legal studies, positioning himself to bridge technology and law.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Github Skills (7)
go10
aws10
oauth10
testing9
go-modules9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
golang/oauth2
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Go OAuth2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 commit, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Go OAuth2 library. Their work focused on AWS integration, specifically addressing scenarios where AWS credentials are provided through environment variables or metadata servers. They introduced checks for AWS environment variables to prevent unnecessary calls to metadata endpoints. The user also implemented and tested changes within the AWS credential source.
golangoauth2oauth2-clientgo
aeitzman/google-auth-library-nodejs
Apr 2022 - Sep 2024
🔑 Google Auth Library for Node.js
Contributions:65 pushes, 17 branches in 2 years 4 months
auth-librarygoogle-auth-librarygooglenode-jsauthentication
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