Alex Mitchell
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Principal Financial Group
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Mitchell is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with 12 years of experience building scalable cloud and client-facing systems across media, gaming, and startups. He has driven developer experience and deployment automation at Riot Games, shipped production web apps at Amazon Studios, and co-founded 0260 Solutions to deliver cost-saving serverless architectures and cross-platform apps for commercial clients. Alex pairs hands-on engineering—spanning React/React Native, Amplify/Express, and container runtimes—with leadership in mentoring and technical curriculum development. Based in Des Moines, he also advises SMBs through his consultancy and has a knack for cutting provisioning time dramatically (e.g., reducing new deployment setup from ten days to one). His career began with impactful internships at Google and Nest, reflecting a long-standing focus on pragmatic, reproducible engineering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, High School Degree at Grinnell-Newburg Community High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Grinnell College
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Github Skills (68)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GrinnellAppDev/Grinnell-DB-iOS
Aug 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:69 commits, 20 PRs, 40 pushes in 2 years 1 month
campusswiftiosdirectory
alexthemitchell/SOFT
Nov 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:78 pushes, 2 branches, 2 comments in 4 years 5 months
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