Alex Moon
Developer Advocate
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Moon is a Developer Advocate with 10 years of experience building JavaScript-first web platforms, tooling, and high-traffic developer documentation. He marries a pragmatic focus on business and user needs with deep hands-on work across the stack—having contributed to major open-source projects like Gatsby (notably improving gatsby-plugin-manifest) and backend systems such as WPGraphQL and Mattermost. At WP Engine he rebuilt documentation architecture, authored technical content around Astro and headless ecosystems, and created custom developer tooling including GitHub Actions and a web-based Swagger UI replacement. Comfortable in both frontend and backend contexts, Alex blends plugin- and API-level work with automation and docs to help teams ship faster. His background ranges from freelance systems administration to product enablement, and he brings an uncommon mix of classical humanities training and pragmatic engineering to explain complex technical topics clearly.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature, Bible and Theology, BA, Ancient/Classical Greek Language and Literature, Bible and Theology at Multnomah UniversityVarious Classes, Various Classes at Portland Community College
Greek, English
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
graphql-api10
sendmail10
back-end-development10
send-email10
wordpress10
smtps10
smtp10
wpgraphql10
plugin10
e-mail10
smtpd10
php10
go10
webapp10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
wp-graphql/wp-graphql
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
:rocket: GraphQL API for WordPress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 32 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on modifying and refactoring the back-end logic related to routing and the GraphQL endpoint. They addressed a bug by adding a menu link and updating dependencies. Their contributions involved ensuring the GraphQL endpoint functioned correctly by adjusting route validation and checking for the correct request URI, contributing to the core functionality of the GraphQL API for WordPress. The refactoring suggests they were maintaining and optimizing existing code.
gatsbyapigraphql-apiwordpresswp-graphql
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Apr 2018 - Jan 2022
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:Frontend Developer
Frontend DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 27 commits, 42 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `gatsby-plugin-manifest` plugin, focusing on its features, functionality, and integration within the Gatsby ecosystem. They updated the plugin to support automatic image generation, improved documentation, and ensured proper handling of various manifest properties. The user's work involved modifying core plugin files such as `gatsby-node.js` and `gatsby-ssr.js`, as well as updating tests and documentation. Furthermore, they made contributions to the main Gatsby site, specifically fixing links in the starter library.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
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