Alex Magana
Senior Software Developer at Andela
Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Magana is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of experience building front-end focused web applications from Kenya, currently contributing at both Andela and BBC News. He holds a First-Class BSc in Computer Science and brings practical expertise in React-driven interfaces, demonstrated by contributions to the BBC's high-profile open-source Simorgh project where he integrated author Twitter metadata and added tests to ensure correct rendering. Comfortable working across collaborative, high-stakes engineering environments, Alex blends attention to UI detail with test-driven practices. Notably, he pairs enterprise experience with open-source stewardship, improving user-facing metadata features that help news sites surface author context.
9 years of coding experience
K.C.S.E, K.C.S.E at DON BOSCO TECHNICAL SECONDARY SCHOOL,EMBUBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First-Class Honours, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, First-Class Honours at The Catholic University of Eastern Africa
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
javascript9
nextjs9
bc8
html8
rt8
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bbc/simorgh
May 2019 - Jan 2023
The BBC's Open Source Web Application. Contributions welcome! Used on some of our biggest websites, e.g.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:122 reviews, 108 commits, 120 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the user interface of the BBC's web application, `simorgh`, by extracting and integrating Twitter handles within article metadata. They implemented features to display author Twitter handles in various components, including article pages and metadata containers. The user's contributions involved modifying existing React components and related metadata structures to incorporate Twitter handle support. Furthermore, they added tests to validate the correct rendering of the Twitter handle in both the ArticlePage and MetadataContainer.
isomorphic-javascriptreactbiggestsingle-page-applicationjavascript
alex-magana/eat-in
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:30 PRs, 59 pushes, 31 branches in 3 months
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