Alex Garibay
Principal Engineer at Symbolic.ai
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Garibay is a Principal Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, real-time systems and payment infrastructure, currently based in Kansas City. A longtime Elixir and Phoenix specialist, he has contributed to flagship projects like Phoenix LiveView and Phoenix itself—shipping features that improve developer experience, testing, and component isolation. He’s led and grown engineering teams, built training programs to scale Elixir adoption, and owned production-critical systems that process millions in daily volume. His work spans backend architecture, job queueing, advanced Postgres analytics, and low-level payment processing including DUKPT/EMV decryption in Elixir. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding and technical leadership, he also runs a software consultancy, combining product-minded engineering with practical operational improvements such as cutting CI-to-production times substantially.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Engineering, B.S. Computer Engineering at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (28)
url-routing10
elixir10
testing10
file-explorer10
phoenix-liveview10
explore10
phoenix-framework10
blockchain10
internet-explorer10
web-framework10
genserver10
api-server9
ethereum9
html9
distribute8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view
Mar 2019 - Jun 2022
Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 17 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the Phoenix LiveView framework, contributing to various aspects of the project. Their commits focused on improving the framework's functionality and developer experience. These changes included adding fully qualified references, updating Live View references to use official naming, and enhancing the handling of events and form submissions. Furthermore, they introduced features like `live_isolated`, a tool for isolated LiveView connection, which suggests a focus on testing and component reusability.
javascriptliveviewphoenix-liveviewexperiencesserver-rendered
phoenixframework/phoenix
Oct 2017 - Nov 2020
Peace of mind from prototype to production
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Phoenix Framework, implementing features and fixing bugs related to routing, static file handling, and schema generation. They modified the core router functionality to prevent errors with singleton resources and invalid route prefixes. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to umbrella applications and context app integration within the framework. Their work included updates to testing frameworks and build configurations.
realtimepeacephoenix-frameworkelixirprototype
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