Summary
Alex Mchardy is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience building user-focused web applications, currently specializing in React and TypeScript. He has a track record of shipping fast MVPs and scaling platforms—from rapid Shopify apps that generated multimillion-dollar revenue to search interfaces handling millions of daily pageviews at Shutterstock. Comfortable across the full stack (Node, Python, GraphQL, AWS, serverless, MySQL/MongoDB), he blends product-driven iteration with pragmatic engineering like custom bundlers and performance-minded 3D visualizations. A proven mentor and hire-manager, he accelerates team velocity through tooling, testing standards, and rapid prototyping. Based in Denver, he balances engineering with endurance running, sourdough baking, and ongoing study of Ukrainian—an indicator of the same steady curiosity he brings to product problems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University