Alex Havermale
Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Havermale is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building full-stack, high-performance web and streaming systems for major media organizations. He currently leads engineering efforts at The New York Times after driving cross-platform performance and rapid product launches at CNN+ and architecting event-driven live streaming systems at CBS Sports and Paramount+. His background includes hands-on work with Kubernetes, AWS, GraphQL, TypeScript, and real-time video orchestration, plus a knack for improving developer experience through shared tooling and infrastructure-as-code. A former Marine Corps officer, he brings operational discipline and leadership to fast-moving engineering teams and onboarding processes. He also prototypes data-heavy web apps—such as geospatial analytics with Mapbox GL—demonstrating an appetite for solving large-scale visualization and real-time data challenges. Based in Virginia Beach, he combines systems thinking with product sensibility to deliver reliable, user-focused experiences under tight timelines.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Virginia Military Institute
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Github Skills (103)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
haversnail/SpotifyKit
Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 211 commits, 30 pushes in 2 years 4 months
haversnail/haversnail
Mar 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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