Alex Howington
Self Employed
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Howington is a versatile software developer with 12 years of experience building web applications and triaging platform issues at a health-tech startup. Grounded in Ruby on Rails and React from freelance work, he brings practical DevOps deployment experience with Heroku and AWS and a history of open-source contributions to Rails tooling. His background spans audio engineering, robotics, 3D environment art, and geospatial imagery—skills that surface in thoughtful, interdisciplinary problem solving. At Slope he coordinates Clinical Ops, Product, and Development to keep mission-critical systems reliable and user-focused. Based in Richmond, VA, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a lifelong curiosity for diverse technical domains. Colleagues would describe him as an enthusiastic tinkerer who translates nerdy passions into useful, human-centered software.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (incomplete), Computer Science, 3.45/4.0 GPA, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (incomplete), Computer Science, 3.45/4.0 GPA at Mississippi State UniversityFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampN/A, Ruby on Rails Web Development, I learned how to make good apps so PASS, N/A, Ruby on Rails Web Development, I learned how to make good apps so PASS at DevPoint Labs
English
Github Skills (46)
sublime-text10
sublime9
textmate9
ui-theme9
rights9
google-maps-api9
json-objects8
color-scheme8
theme-ui8
rails-composer8
rails-api7
water7
steroids6
rails6
geojson6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ash106/rwc
Jun 2014 - May 2020
Water rights management system for Riley Water Consulting
Contributions:392 commits, 1 PR, 131 pushes in 6 years
management-systemgoogle-maps-apirailsrightsconsulting
ash106/phaser_flappy_bird_tut
May 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 3 years 2 months
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