Alex Robertson
Senior Growth Engineer at Muck Rack
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Robertson is a Senior Growth Engineer with 12 years of experience designing maintainable, testable web applications from Boulder (remote) and Lafayette, Colorado. He blends front-end and back-end expertise—having improved template and image handling in notable open-source projects like Timber and added promise support to consolidate.js—with product-minded engineering at companies such as Muck Rack, Bonusly, Condé Nast, and Pitchfork. Alex prioritizes accessibility, modularity, and extensibility, and has a track record of improving build/test pipelines, migrating CMS platforms, and strengthening site performance and reliability. Comfortable both leading teams and shipping core infrastructure, he brings a creative background in fine and studio arts to craft thoughtful user experiences and pragmatic technical solutions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St. Charles EastBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine and Studio Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Fine and Studio Arts at Knox College
English
Github Skills (14)
asynchronous10
wordpress10
php10
javascript10
nodejs10
twig10
image-processing10
async10
es6-promise10
timber10
templating-engine9
react9
git9
bluebird7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tj/consolidate.js
May 2015 - May 2015
Template engine consolidation library for node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the `consolidate.js` library's functionality and maintainability. They implemented promise support, enabling asynchronous operations and better integration with promise-based environments. The user also addressed whitespace issues and refactored code to improve the library's internal structure. Moreover, they added promise support for the React rendering.
nodejstemplate-engine
timber/timber
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 issue in 6 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Timber WordPress theme framework. Their work focused on improving image handling functionalities, including initialization, information retrieval, and file management. They also addressed inconsistencies and implemented core functionality improvements across the project. Additionally, the user made modifications to the timber framework code, as well as test improvements.
ooptemplate-enginetwigwordpress-themeswordpress
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