Alex Gates-shannon
AI Verification & Evaluation Consultant
Ashburn, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Gates-shannon is an independent developer with 11 years of backend and platform engineering experience who builds production-grade agentic systems and the platforms that run them. He is the creator of Zoltar, an open-source AI game master that demonstrates disciplined server-side state management, validated tool use, and long-context orchestration using NestJS, PostgreSQL, pgvector and Claude. Comfortable owning systems end-to-end, he brings deep TypeScript/NestJS expertise alongside meaningful Python experience (FastAPI, Django, Flask), Docker and self-hosted deployment. At OnCorps he designed a policy-based, multitenant authorization system that moves beyond traditional RBAC for finely grained fintech access control. Based in Ashburn, VA, he is open to contract or full-time roles building LLM-powered products or infra, and he publishes writing and code publicly (alexgs.dev, github.com/alexgs). An unusual strength: he blends product-minded design for tabletop experiences with rigorous backend architecture usually seen in enterprise systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computational Biology, Masters Computational Biology at The University of Texas at AustinReact Engineer Nanodegree, React Engineer Nanodegree at Udacity
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Github Skills (57)
content-management-system10
cms10
hugo10
blog-engine10
go10
flask-cors10
fastest10
static-site-generator9
cors9
color-scheme9
windows9
conemu9
command-line9
static-assets9
mintty9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alexgs/electric-lounge
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021
A library manager for Spotify
Contributions:16 pushes, 20 branches in 4 years 7 months
spotify-apilinuxspotify
alexgs/bare-owls
Jun 2021 - Oct 2021
Contributions:92 pushes, 50 branches in 3 months
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