Alex Harvey
Staff Software Engineer at HelloFresh
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Harvey is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience crafting user interfaces that make complex information intuitive and actionable. Based in Kitchener, he currently supports customer-facing web properties for HelloFresh, where he champions stronger testing practices to reduce incidents and improve user experience. His career spans roles at Shopify, ProntoForms/TrueContext, IBM, and Salesforce, blending hands-on UI development with technical leadership and people management. Alex is passionate about code quality and knowledge sharing, mentoring teams to elevate collective craftsmanship through trust and constructive feedback. He combines a psychology-and-computer-science background with a pragmatic, playful approach to engineering—"artisanally built for longevity, chaotically built for amusement"—which helps him balance durable design with creative problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA/BCS, Psychology & Computer Science with co-op program, BA/BCS, Psychology & Computer Science with co-op program at University of New Brunswick
English
Github Skills (42)
authentication10
shopify9
webhooks9
flip9
api9
proxy8
typescript8
javascript8
nodejs8
fastify8
admin8
polaris7
requestanimationframe7
graphql6
react6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
abharvey/simply-themed
Nov 2018 - Jan 2022
Simple utility module to build themed media queries using styled-components or emotion
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 38 pushes in 3 years 2 months
reactemotionstitchescssinjscss-in-js
abharvey/miscellaneous
Feb 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
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