Alex Page
Senior Software Developer at Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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RockstarAlex Page is a senior software developer based in Canberra with 10 years of experience delivering pragmatic, maintainable solutions across government and public-sector IT. He combines hands-on C#/.NET development with architecture and security expertise gained from roles as a Solution Architect and IT Security Manager, helping stabilise legacy systems and drive DevOps culture. At the Australian Government Department of Agriculture and related agencies he has led teams, mentored engineers, and guided incident response and upgrade programs. He also contributes to high-profile open-source design work—streamlining Shopify’s Polaris design system to improve consistency and maintainability—reflecting a focus on cleaning technical debt as much as building new features. Colleagues know him for practical leadership that balances risk-aware security thinking with a front-end attention to user-facing polish.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (13)
system10
typescript10
component-library10
typescripts10
storybook10
typescript-types10
react10
css6
internet-explorer6
javascript6
bootstrap6
google-maps-api6
google-maps6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/polaris
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Shopify’s design system to help us work together to build a great experience for all of our merchants.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 1434 reviews, 435 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Shopify Polaris design system by removing and deprecating components and features. They removed the skeleton animation, color scheme knobs, and the addon-knobs package. The user also deprecated several component properties within the Page and SkeletonPage components, streamlining the code and improving the design system's maintainability. These changes focused on cleaning up Storybook configurations and component implementations, improving the overall design system's consistency and maintainability.
shopifymerchantsreactvscode-extensiongreat
alex-page/black-lion
Nov 2017 - Oct 2021
Contributions:49 pushes, 7 branches, 4 issues in 3 years 11 months
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