Alex Liebowitz
Development Mentor And Teacher at Independent (prev. Viking Code School and LightHouse Holyoke)
Williamsburg, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Liebowitz is a seasoned software engineer and development mentor with 11 years of experience building and maintaining full-stack web applications, desktop apps, and APIs for startups, nonprofits, and open-source projects. He has shipped React/Electron front-ends and backend services for teams like LBRY and Shop-Ware, and contributed backend improvements to the notable decentralized LBRY SDK—working on daemon and wallet features that improved file streaming and metadata validation. Comfortable across PHP/Laravel, Python, and modern JavaScript toolchains, he pairs hands-on engineering with over 350 hours of teaching and mentoring experience—helping bootcamp students, teens, and freelance learners progress into production-quality work. Based in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, Alex also has a track record of coordinating cross-organizational integrations (payments, CRM, and merchant partners) and quietly prefers mentoring as much as shipping code.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts - AA, Liberal Arts, Associate of Arts - AA, Liberal Arts at Holyoke Community CollegeUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (10)
api10
python10
apidoc10
json-schema10
back-end-development10
blockchain9
streaming9
file-management9
decentralization8
cryptocurrency8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lbryio/lbry-sdk
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
The LBRY SDK for building decentralized, censorship resistant, monetized digital content apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 49 commits, 24 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the LBRY SDK, focusing on the daemon and wallet components. Their work involved implementing new API methods, refactoring existing code, and adding support for features like file uploads and streaming partially downloaded files. They also made changes to the configuration settings and file opening processes, improving the overall functionality and user experience. The user also refactored the metadata validation process and added support for a new JSON schema.
pythondhtprotocolp2pbittorrent
lbryio/lbry-web-ui
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:216 PRs, 452 pushes, 212 branches in 11 months
javascript-frontendlbryjavascriptfrontend
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