Alex Gilbert
Co-Founder at ApostropheCMS
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gilbert is a veteran engineering leader and co-founder who has spent two decades building collaborative, open-source-driven digital products from South Philadelphia. As co-founder of ApostropheCMS and former CEO, he blends hands-on full-stack front-end work—improving UI components, form tooling, and in-context editing—with product strategy to help teams stay productive and happy. He has deep experience founding and scaling engineering teams at P'unk Avenue, shipping high-impact projects like the NIH-funded Way to Health platform and The Criterion Collection relaunch. Known as the "team glue" and a whiteboard enthusiast, he excels at aligning technical direction with customer outcomes and developer experience. Even after formal leadership roles, Alex continues to contribute concretely to the Apostrophe open-source codebase, including notification scaffolding and autocomplete UX enhancements that improve publisher workflows.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Multimedia, BFA, Multimedia at University of the Arts
English
Github Skills (9)
html10
cms10
nodejs10
javascript10
frontend10
web-frontend10
lessc9
css9
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apostrophecms/apostrophe
Jan 2016 - Jun 2021
A full-featured, open-source content management framework built with Node.js that empowers organizations by combining in-context editing and headless architecture in a full-stack JS environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 25 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end and UI components of the Apostrophe CMS, refactoring form macros and adding features like favicon customization. Their work involved modifying templates for form elements, including text, tags, and select inputs. They also enhanced the autocomplete menu and the display of file attachments. Furthermore, the user implemented the scaffolding for a notification system within the CMS, with styling and front-end JavaScript to manage and display notifications.
cmscms-frameworkfull-featurednode-jsfull-stack
apostrophecms/apostrophe-atom
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 7 months
apostropheatomatom-snippetssnippets
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