Alex Russell-saw
Freelance at rs.engineering
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAlex Russell-saw is a freelance software engineer based in London with 11 years of experience building backend systems in Go, Ruby, Python and Typescript. He has shipped production services at fast-moving companies including Stripe, Monzo, Sourcegraph and incident.io, and contributed backend improvements to Sourcegraph’s widely used code-search platform. Comfortable across databases and infrastructure (Postgres, Redis, telemetry) and OAuth/security hardening, he combines product-focused engineering with pragmatic systems thinking. Now running rs.engineering, he helps teams move quickly from prototype to resilient services while bringing lessons from high-scale fintech and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
23reputation
2kreached
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Github Skills (28)
authentication10
email-server10
authenticate10
e-mail10
mailer10
go10
oauth10
emailjs10
auth10
api-design9
restful-api9
testing9
postgresql9
redis9
api-rest9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sourcegraph/sourcegraph-public-snapshot
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:222 reviews, 55 commits, 153 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Sourcegraph platform. Their work involved enhancing account update emails by adding external URLs, including modifications to email templates and testing. They also added dependency versions of Postgres and Redis servers to the ping event for telemetry and monitoring purposes. Furthermore, the user implemented OAuth login improvements by addressing redirect parameters and associated security considerations, including handling and validating redirect URLs.
sourcegraphcode-generationrepo-type-maindeveloper-toolslsif-enabled
arussellsaw/news
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
https://news.russellsaw.io
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 8 months
news
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