Alex Hortin
Chief, Bilateral Communications
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hortin is a communications and systems leader with 13 years of experience in the United States Air Force, currently serving as Chief of Bilateral Communications and previously commanding network operations and a Network Control Center. He combines operational leadership with hands-on technical skills from a Computer Science background at Washington State University, routinely bridging mission requirements and secure, reliable network solutions. Alex has practical engineering chops demonstrated by open-source work like a Node.js module that detects Amazon Dash Button presses, where he refactored code into an event emitter and added unit tests. Based in Virginia, he’s adept at translating low-level network behavior into maintainable software and test automation, a useful but less obvious strength for a senior communications officer. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who balances technical depth with clear operational accountability.
13 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Washington State University
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
testing10
packet-analysis10
nodejs10
pcap9
event-emitter9
chai9
heroku9
mochajs9
emitter9
socket6
embedding6
ruby-on-rails6
lua6
python6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hortinstein/node-dash-button
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
A small module to emit events when an Amazon Dash Button is pressed
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:116 commits, 21 PRs, 101 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on developing and testing an Amazon Dash Button module. They started by exploring the use of `arpjs` to detect ARP packets, attempting to capture and analyze network traffic. The user then refactored the module into an event emitter. They also implemented unit tests using Mocha and Chai.
eventsdashdash-buttonamazonnodered
hortinstein/brinydeep
Feb 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
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