Alex Korban
Software Engineering Manager at Korban.net
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Korban is a seasoned software engineering manager and author with 14+ years building resilient systems, from founding a geospatial startup to leading engineering teams at product and platform companies. He blends hands-on engineering (Elixir, PostgreSQL, JavaScript) with strong people and process leadership, currently supporting org-wide engineering practices at Totara after technical leadership roles at Cogo and Flick. A prolific educator and open-source contributor, he has self-published books on Elm and PostgreSQL, created popular learning content, and contributes QA/test automation to the well-known elm-ui project. His background spans real-time data at scale, embedded C++ systems, and product delivery for heavy construction and carbon management, showing a rare mix of low-level systems thinking and web-scale architecture. Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who moves comfortably between code, coaching, and product strategy while bringing pragmatic functional-programming sensibilities to day-to-day engineering.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of Canterbury
Stackoverflow
14,986reputation
1.2mreached
149answers
23questions
coffeescript
top-5%
ruby
top-5%
migration
top-1%
ruby-on-rails
top-1%
heroku
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Github Skills (20)
uitest10
testing10
elm10
migration10
ui-testing10
ruby-on-rails10
coffeescript9
ruby9
heroku9
test-automation9
front-end-development8
vector6
activerecord6
stl6
visual-studio6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mdgriffith/elm-ui
May 2020 - May 2020
What if you never had to write CSS again?
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 82 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributes to the `elm-ui` repository by adding test cases. Their work focuses on verifying the correct rendering behavior of UI elements, specifically addressing identified issues related to layout, focus styles, and border rendering in different browsers. These tests cover scenarios like clipped elements in fixed-width columns, element rendering in fixed-height columns, and the overlap of element borders.
cssneverwhat-if
alexkorban/elm-review-json-to-elm
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes in 6 months
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