Alex Layton
Partner at Qlever LLC
Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Layton is a Partner and software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend systems and research-grade tooling from Oregon. With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue, he blends applied research in stochastic image processing and precision agriculture with hands-on cloud and systems engineering, having implemented AWS-backed services and device-level data collection solutions like the original ISOBlue. He contributes to open source—improving node-horseman to add promise chaining and robust async behavior—and prefers working away from front-end tasks, focusing on reliable backend and embedded integrations. Comfortable moving between research, firmware, and scalable backend services, he brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to turning complex sensor and yield datasets into production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at Purdue University
English
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
nodejs10
phantomjs10
es6-promise10
test-automation10
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
johntitus/node-horseman
Sep 2015 - Apr 2017
Run PhantomJS from Node
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:158 commits, 33 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the functionality and usability of the `node-horseman` library, a tool for running PhantomJS from Node.js. Their contributions involved adding features like promise chaining, enhancing test coverage for the new features, and improving the handling of asynchronous operations within the library's core actions. They also addressed bugs and refactored code to improve maintainability and ensure proper behavior in different use cases, like file uploads and the handling of Javascript evaluation.
javascriptnodejsphantomjsnode
Qlever-LLC/oada
Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
OADA DooD image (not for production use).
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
not-for-productionoadause-productionproductiondood
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