Alex Maxwell
Software Developer at Iowa State University
Verona, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Maxwell is a Software Developer with 14 years of experience, currently building healthcare software at Epic and teaching data structures as a head TA at Iowa State University. He brings strong confidence-driven discipline to engineering—demonstrated by a 4.0 GPA, leadership in recitations, and production bug fixes to Android’s Contacts app—while continuously expanding his language toolkit (Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Python). Alex has delivered practical automation and image-processing projects in internships and contributes to open-source Android platform code, improving contact sorting and preference refresh behavior with solid unit tests. Based in Verona, WI, he pairs meticulous testing habits with a willingness to own problems end-to-end and pick up new technologies quickly, making him a dependable contributor on both product and teaching teams.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.0, Mathematics and Computer Science, 4.0 at Iowa State University
English
Github Skills (6)
javas10
sharedpreferences10
android-development10
java10
unit-testing9
android-ui8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_packages_apps_contacts
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:46 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the ContactsPreferences within the Android Contacts app. Their work involved resolving refresh issues that prevented the cached values from updating with the latest changes in SharedPreferences. The user also added the DISPLAY_NAME_ALTERNATIVE column in ContactTileLoaderFactory and added the method to choose namePrimary or nameAlt for sorting purposes and also added a method to check if methods are available at runtime. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the unit tests to ensure the fixes were working correctly.
bmaxwell921/PixelHellProd
Jun 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:83 commits in 24 days
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