Alex Friedman
Owner And Instructor at Madison Commercial Real Estate Services
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Friedman is a seasoned software developer and educator with 14 years of experience building scalable .NET systems and leading engineering teams, now serving as Owner and Instructor at Lakewood Institute of Technology while also heading software development at Madison Commercial Real Estate Services. He has a strong background in multithreaded backend services, low-latency financial and analytics applications, and a history of introducing Agile, TDD, and IoC practices to teams. Alex combines hands-on engineering—spanning C#, ASP.NET, WPF, and SQL Server—with curriculum design to help launch new developer careers through an intensive nine-and-a-half month program. He contributed to open-source tooling for API testing (an RSpec-driven framework) demonstrating attention to testing and QA automation beyond his enterprise work. Based in New Jersey, he brings a practical, systems-oriented approach and a track record of modernizing legacy platforms while coaching others to do the same.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (64)
swing10
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api-rest10
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api-design10
restful-api10
linq10
rspec10
textbox10
winforms10
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brooklynDev/airborne
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
RSpec driven API testing framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:93 commits, 7 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alex focused on building an RSpec-driven API testing framework. They initiated the project by adding the gem structure and base URL configurations. Key contributions include implementing request expectations for JSON types, headers, and status codes, along with the ability to perform POST requests. The user developed RSpec tests, including tests for JSON types, headers, status codes, and POST requests to ensure the framework's functionality.
api-testingrspec
brooklynDev/NGon
Feb 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:12 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
asp-net-mvcrailsaspasp-netnet-mvc
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