Alex Hughes
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Hughes is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with nearly a decade of hands-on experience building and delivering cloud services, currently owning feature delivery on Azure Database for PostgreSQL at Microsoft. He combines software engineering and program management experience from leading engineering teams at EF Education First with deep operational ownership—design, architecture, testing, debugging, and deployment—on a large-scale cloud database service. His background spans full lifecycle product delivery and people leadership, informed by international development and public-sector program work (including Peace Corps and USAID collaborations) that sharpened his cross-cultural communication and program measurement skills. Alex brings a multidisciplinary perspective—master’s training in public administration alongside post-baccalaureate computer science studies—that helps him bridge technical tradeoffs with customer-focused outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, History and Spanish, Bachelor’s Degree, History and Spanish at University of OregonSpanish, History, Spanish, History at Pontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorMaster’s Degree, Public Administration, Master’s Degree, Public Administration at Portland State UniversityPost-Bachelor's Courses, Computer Science, Post-Bachelor's Courses, Computer Science at Oregon State University
Spanish, Haitian Creole, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
python10
command-line-interface10
swagger10
azure-cli10
rest-api10
princexml10
openapi10
javascript10
django10
css-grid10
browser10
rest10
azure10
nextjs10
orm10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
alxhghs/my-personal-page
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Source code for my personal site, built using Gatsby and TypeScript
Contributions:309 commits, 24 PRs, 354 pushes in 5 years 7 months
gatsbyjstypescriptcss-gridemotiongatsby
alxhghs/cscoa-project
Apr 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:371 pushes, 26 branches in 4 years 7 months
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