Alex Petros
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Petros is a Product Owner with nine years of hands-on engineering and DBA experience who specializes in turning complex business needs into precise technical specifications, Gherkin acceptance criteria, and executable UAT plans. He has led platform and data modernization efforts at American Express and Capital One, driving Kubernetes-based infrastructure, multi-region failover, and cloud-native storage/ingestion modernization while maintaining high availability and security. Comfortable running Scrum ceremonies and PI planning, he pairs product vision and backlog prioritization with detailed sequence and data flow diagrams to keep stakeholders and engineering teams aligned. A pragmatic full-stack contributor to the popular htmx project, he’s improved client-side event handling and usability—showing a bias for lightweight, accessible web tooling. Based in New York, he blends database-operational rigor with modern platform thinking to deliver resilient, scalable systems that reduce incident response and accelerate delivery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at Georgia State University
English
Github Skills (8)
html10
jscript10
javascript10
htmx10
event-handling10
testing10
rest9
hyperscript8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
bigskysoftware/htmx
Jul 2022 - Dec 2025
</> htmx - high power tools for HTML
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 212 reviews, 305 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex implemented new features related to the `htmx:trigger` event, allowing for client-side actions without network requests. They added support for the `hx-on:*` attribute, including shorthand notation, enhancing event handling capabilities. The user also contributed by adding a function to disable the logger. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the core functionality and flexibility of the htmx library.
htmxjavascripthateoasresthyperscript
alexpetros/thefloatingcontinent.com
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:81 commits, 115 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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