Alex Perkins
Senior Software Engineer, Front-End at REI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Perkins is a Senior Front-End Software Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of professional experience and 15+ years of front-end practice shaping customer-facing web experiences. At REI since 2014 he's focused on building modular, testable UIs that integrate with RESTful backends, drawing on earlier work producing browser-based tools for the US Patent Office and custom 3-tier enterprise applications. He combines solid engineering discipline from an electrical engineering background (BS/MS, University of Washington) with hands-on delivery across the full web stack, often translating usability team stories into production features. Known for a thoughtful, pragmatic approach to asynchronous JavaScript and front-end architecture, he balances long-term maintainability with pragmatic shipping cadence.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Washington
Japanese
Github Skills (62)
javascript10
windows10
linux10
webpack10
js10
nodejs10
coffeescript9
es6-modules9
amd9
css9
commonjs9
functional-programming9
macos9
code-splitting9
compiler9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rei/febs
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
FEBS is an extensible front-end build system with a simple command-line interface used to build front-end assets.
Contributions:87 PRs, 204 pushes, 98 branches in 2 years 2 months
build-systemcommand-line-interfacefrontend
rei/asset-tag-frag-webpack-plugin
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
Webpack plugin to generate an html fragment with asset tag(s).
Contributions:8 PRs, 43 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
webpack-pluginwebpack-loaderfragmentassetwebpack
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