Alex Muramoto
Staff UX Engineer, Ads at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Muramoto is a Staff UX Engineer at Google with 12 years of experience blending developer advocacy, front-end engineering, and technical writing across platforms like Maps, Wallet, and Ads. He has a rare mix of product-facing evangelism and hands-on code contributions—fixing samples, enhancing RTL support, and improving e2e test coverage for the widely used Google Maps JavaScript and Node client libraries. Former roles at Facebook, Ionic, Apigee, and Evernote reflect his strength in developer relations, documentation, and SDK reliability, while his MFA and English background inform a clear, user-centered approach to technical content. He frequently ships pragmatic fixes (typo and doc cleanups to API-driven test updates) and has contributed to both UI toolkits like Ionic and backend Node SDKs such as Apache Usergrid. Based in Seattle, he pairs advocacy with engineering discipline, often surfacing subtle UX and testing gaps that improve long-term platform quality.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at San Francisco State UniversityB.A English, B.A English at University of California, Davis
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Github Skills (50)
application-framework10
ionice10
e2e-testing10
spec10
javascript10
file-management10
ios10
mobile-development10
apidoc10
cordova10
e2e-test10
app-framework10
typescript10
ionic10
cordova-plugin10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googlemaps-samples/codelab-maps-platform-101-js
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on implementing the front-end components of the Google Maps platform codelab. Their contributions included formatting and minor code changes, adding console logs for debugging, and un-commenting necessary function calls. The user also added license headers and required OSS files. Furthermore, they made minor code adjustments based on feedback and a typo fix.
googlemaps/js-samples
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Samples for the Google Maps JavaScript v3 API
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 47 commits, 110 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Google Maps JavaScript API samples by fixing typos, creating new examples, and adding support for right-to-left (RTL) languages. They also addressed type errors and updated dependencies, ensuring the code's integrity. The contributions included modifying code in HTML, TypeScript, and JavaScript files to enhance the functionality and presentation of the samples.
apigooglemapsapi-v3googlejavascript
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