Alex Hamstra
Front End Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Lake Forest, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hamstra is a front-end software engineer with 13 years of professional experience and nine years focused on customer-facing web applications, currently building interactive experiences at Anduril Industries. He has a strong track record of shipping measurable product improvements—A/B tests and signup optimizations that boosted conversions, QuickBooks integration that increased GMV, and homepage redesigns that empowered Product to drive data-driven content. Alex has driven architectural improvements from microservice extraction to React hot-reloading and API frameworks, reducing developer load times and accelerating delivery. He mentors teams and scaled front-end hiring while serving as Scrum Master, cutting meeting overhead and increasing velocity. Comfortable learning new stacks under shifting priorities (including ClojureScript), he blends pragmatic tradeoffs with a focus on developer productivity and customer impact. Based in Lake Forest, CA, he pairs a UCSB computer science foundation with hands-on experience across startups and larger engineering organizations.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (10)
refresh9
fast-refresh8
tweak8
react6
react-components4
javascript3
typescript3
refactor3
nodejs3
player1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CommanderHamster/new
Feb 2015 - Jul 2019
Test Repo
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
testingtest-repo
TheConstructors/QwikStubs
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:153 commits in 4 months
reactjavascriptpurchasingsellingnodejs
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