Alex Grant
Software Engineer II at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Grant is a pragmatic Software Engineer II in Portland with 11 years of experience focused on C#/.NET backend systems and WPF-based machine automation. He builds reliable microservices and backend tooling—often integrating Mongo, Kafka, and image/ML pipelines—and prefers solving complex problems over chasing front-end work. Comfortable with modern front-end frameworks but candidly averse to JavaScript, he brings clarity and discipline to cross-stack projects. His open-source work includes backend bug fixes and testing improvements for a Django async private chat, reflecting a strong emphasis on code quality and compatibility. A Reed College alumnus with a background tutoring math, he pairs technical depth with a knack for explaining difficult concepts. Colleagues know him for steady delivery on production automation and for quietly improving test infrastructure behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Hanover High SchoolBachelor's of Arts, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's of Arts, Mathematics and Computer Science at Reed College
English, German
Github Skills (7)
python10
django10
testing10
websocket9
asyncio8
django-rest-framework7
django-rest7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Bearle/django-private-chat
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
(Deprecated - Please check out https://github.com/Bearle/django_private_chat2) Django one-to-one Websocket-based Asyncio-handled chat, developed by Bearle team
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the testing infrastructure for the Django private chat application. They addressed issues related to older Django versions, corrected tests to ensure functionality, and made minor code adjustments. They also updated the example template to ensure it functions correctly. This suggests a focus on code quality and compatibility.
dialogwebsocketspythonasynciodjango
reed-college/paneity
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:353 commits, 115 PRs, 339 pushes in 3 months
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