Alex Gleason
CEO at Soapbox Technology
Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlex Gleason is a founder and CEO with 11 years of engineering experience who leads Soapbox Technology from Texas, blending entrepreneurial vision with hands-on back-end development. He contributes to notable open-source projects like the Django-based Wagtail CMS, where he focuses on refactoring, bug fixes, documentation, and stream field usability improvements. As a Nostr developer on GitHub, he brings an interest in decentralized social protocols and lightweight, resilient systems. Known for turning playful energy into practical outcomes—"Don't let your memes be dreams"—he pairs pragmatic codecraft with product-minded leadership. Clients and collaborators benefit from his ability to move between strategic company direction and detailed code improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
cms10
wagtail10
python10
django10
documentation9
javascript8
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
wagtail/wagtail
Aug 2015 - Nov 2018
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 24 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Wagtail CMS project by addressing code-related issues. They refactored and updated code, fixed bugs, and performed other code improvements. They also worked on documentation updates, ensuring better explanations and providing useful information on the code itself. Furthermore, they improved overall usability of the project and worked on features related to the stream field.
content-management-systemdjangopythoncmswagtail
alexgleason/pig-latin
Apr 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:13 releases, 1 PR, 62 pushes in 2 years 11 months
jargonencoder
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