Alex Elkins
Principal Software Engineer at Rovertown
Amanda, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Elkins is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience architecting high-throughput payment APIs and full-stack systems, currently leading backend and cloud efforts at Rovertown where his platforms process millions of transactions. He combines Laravel/PHP and Vue-driven web apps with AWS serverless and streaming technologies (Kinesis, Lambda, SQS/SNS) to deliver resilient, observable systems, and routinely leverages ElasticSearch, Redshift and caching for performance at scale. Past roles span enterprise e-commerce, mobile device management, and API work across .NET, Java, Python, and iOS—evidence of a pragmatic polyglot who moves between frontend UX and low-latency backend concerns. Based in Amanda, Ohio, he pairs a technical management degree with hands-on delivery, and often bridges agency design to production-ready high-traffic brand sites. An engineer who favors practical, maintainable architectures, he’s as comfortable tuning database performance as he is designing event-driven payment pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Technical Management, Bachelor's Degree Technical Management at DeVry UniversityVocational Honors Computer and Networking Technology, Vocational Honors Computer and Networking Technology at Eastland-Fairfield Career and Technical SchoolsHonors High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Honors High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Amanda-Clearcreek High School
English, Dutch
Github Skills (131)
cms10
silverstripe10
web-application10
authentication10
data-management10
experience-manager10
internet10
backbonejs10
dhcp10
hubspot10
pimcore10
auth10
laravel10
shell10
application10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexleeelkins/pimcore
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
The leading enterprise platform for CMS/CMF, MDM, PIM, DAM and E-Commerce
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
cmsecommercedammhealthpim
alexleeelkins/piaware-alerts
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A twitter bot that works with PiAware (or any similar setup with a json feed from dump1090) to send out information about aircraft flying over your location.
Contributions:42 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
twitter-botaircraftjson-feedpythonsimilar
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