Alex Rocha
Software Engineer at Shopify
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Rocha is a software engineer with a decade of experience focused on developer tools, language tooling, and improving the craft of programming. Based in Vancouver and originally from Portugal, he contributes to the Ruby ecosystem at Shopify, where he maintains projects like Ruby LSP and Tapioca and works on static analysis, language parsing, and gradual typing. His background in the Dev Degree program and cross-team work at Shopify give him a strong blend of academic rigor and production-grade engineering. Alex thrives on untangling complex systems to make them more understandable and productive for other developers, and he brings a meticulous, curiosity-driven approach to open source and internal infrastructure. He’s particularly passionate about tooling that elevates developer experience and productivity, and enjoys connecting over language design and developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Dominican University of CaliforniaUniversidade Nova de Lisboa
Github Skills (7)
cjs9
react-modal9
shopify-api8
shopify7
javascript6
browser5
typescript5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
getzoop/boleto-brasileiro-validator
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Validador de boletos bancários
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes in 10 months
boletosriosvalidador
Friends-In-Town-app/Android-app
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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