Alex Griffith
Senior Software Engineer at Betterment
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Griffith is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and shaping engineering teams across healthcare and edtech. Currently at Betterment after a multi-role tenure at Radicle Health, he specializes in reliable, user-focused systems and has experience progressing from instructor and curriculum developer to senior staff engineer. He brings a strong Rails, JavaScript, React, and concurrent backend background, having designed education platforms and healthcare software that survived an acquisition. Alex’s teaching history—leading cohorts at Flatiron School and crafting high-school curricula—gives him an unusually strong aptitude for mentorship, documentation, and translating complex concepts for varied audiences. Based in the New York City area, he pairs creative problem-solving (rooted in a BFA from RISD) with pragmatic engineering discipline. Colleagues know him for patient leadership and for repeatedly turning instructional insight into production-quality features.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Flatiron SchoolB.F.A. Painting, B.F.A. Painting at Rhode Island School of Design
Github Skills (27)
javascript10
css10
http10
html10
web-development10
translation9
fundamentals9
documentation9
elixir8
web-developer8
flatiron8
web-standards7
ruby4
react3
functional-js3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexgriff/hidden_phrase_backend
Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
learn-co-curriculum/randopic-rails-backend
Nov 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
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