Alex Hollenbeck
Engineering Manager at Plenful
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hollenbeck is an engineering manager based in Chicago with 11 years of experience leading full‑stack teams at early- to mid-stage startups, currently managing engineering at Plenful. He blends hands‑on React and Python expertise with a people‑first leadership style focused on shipping accessible, performant, and beautiful user-centered products. Comfortable across Node, Ember, Rails, Backbone, and Scala, he’s framework‑agnostic and works closely with product and design to turn thoughtful concepts into production features. Alex has a track record of scaling teams and growth-focused engineering from roles at Flatfile and Envoy, while maintaining a freelance practice that keeps him connected to varied technical challenges. Notably, he pairs managerial rigor with a mission to foster cultures of kindness and continuous improvement, making high-impact engineering humane as well as effective.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Northwestern University
Github Skills (24)
platform-sdk9
d3js7
flat-file7
react7
graphql6
gatsbyjs6
csv6
gatsby6
compiler5
csv-parser5
security5
isomorphic5
static-site-generator4
svg4
canvas3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexhollenbeck/microscope
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
alexhollenbeck/chuynegrete
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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