Alex Johnson
Copy Editor at NBC News
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Johnson is a veteran copy editor and journalist with four decades of experience crafting and polishing news and feature content for national outlets, currently shaping accuracy and style at NBC News. Based in Oregon, he blends deep newsroom instincts from roles at The Washington Post and Knight Ridder with a decade-long engagement in tech education and open-source coding, contributing C++ algorithm implementations and tests to a community repository. That uncommon mix of rigorous editorial judgment and hands-on algorithmic work informs his clear, precise communication and attention to structural detail. He also teaches math and computer science, bringing pedagogical clarity to complex topics and a habit of refactoring both prose and code for better readability and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
University of Georgia
Github Skills (8)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
cpp9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ProAlgos/ProAlgos-Cpp
Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
C++ implementations of well-known (and some rare) algorithms, while following good software development practices
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 52 commits, 115 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on implementing and refactoring C++ algorithms and data structures within the `proalgos/proalgos-cpp` repository. Their contributions include adding default values to function parameters across several sorting algorithms. They also refactored the code by migrating algorithms, such as the greatest common divisor, extended Euclidean algorithm, and others into header files for improved code organization. Furthermore, the user updated the repository by renaming code and adding unit tests to ensure functionality.
implementationsdevelopment-practicescppdatastructuresalgos
alxmjo/code
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:119 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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