Alex Quick
Infrastructure Engineer at Appfigures
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Quick is an Infrastructure Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating reliable platforms at Appfigures in New York, where he moved from Head of Engineering into a hands-on infrastructure role. He excels at debugging and pragmatic engineering, having improved configuration management, env parsing, and auth systems across notable open-source projects like dokku, godotenv, and Graylog. Alex combines deep backend expertise with a penchant for automating repetitive work—early in his career he even replaced his own internship tasks by shipping tooling—so he focuses on removing toil and making systems observable and secure. His background in computer science and economics gives him a practical, metrics-aware approach to platform decisions and developer productivity.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS/BA, Computer Science/Economics, BS/BA, Computer Science/Economics at Pace University
Github Skills (35)
ruby-rails10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
configuration-management10
user-authentication10
authentication10
rails10
dotenv10
ruby10
go10
api10
strings9
json9
security9
bash9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dokku/dokku
Jan 2017 - Jul 2019
A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 10 PRs, 43 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the backend of the `dokku/dokku` project, specifically focusing on the configuration management system. Their work involved adding new features like base64 encoded config values, and modifying file formats to align with bash exports. Additionally, the user enhanced existing functionality, such as incorporating support for environment bundles. Furthermore, they also improved logging and default command functions.
containersdokkuherokupaaslifecycle
joho/godotenv
May 2017 - Sep 2017
A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `godotenv` library, a Go port of the dotenv library. Their contributions included adding support for escaping special characters and handling nested quotes. Furthermore, they improved the parsing logic to accommodate equals signs within yaml-style lines. They also fixed a specific panic and added support for writing environments out in dotenv format.
golangenvironment-variablesconfigurationdotenvruby
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