Alex Saunders
Graduate Research Assistant
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Saunders is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant at the University of Arizona with nine years’ experience quantifying and managing disaster risk using remote sensing and geospatial analytics. He bridges academia, humanitarian practice and (re)insurance—supporting World Bank flood risk modeling, designing disaster risk financing systems at Start Network, and leading catastrophe analytics for Willis Re across Sub-Saharan Africa. Alex combines technical skills in R, SQL and spatial tools (QGIS/ArcMap) with hands-on remote sensing applications to monitor flood hazards and historical inundation from satellite data. He also contributes front-end code and tests to notable open-source projects like Spectacle, showing an eye for communicative UI as well as rigorous analytics. Known for translating complex hazard science into operational decision tools, he routinely presents to C-suite, government and humanitarian partners to turn risk data into finance and policy solutions.
9 years of coding experience
The University of ArizonaMaster of Geophsyics (MGeophys), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Geophysical Sciences, 1st Class, Master of Geophsyics (MGeophys), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Geophysical Sciences, 1st Class at University of LeedsGeophysical Sciences, 1st, Geophysical Sciences, 1st at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
styled-components10
react10
jestjs9
snapshot-testing9
slide8
typography7
testing7
presenter7
presentationml7
presentation-layer7
jsx6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/spectacle
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Spectacle library, focusing on UI component creation and testing. They added styles for improved presentation display, specifically for slide names. The user implemented and tested new components such as `Table`, `TableHeader`, `TableBody`, and `Progress`, along with associated snapshot tests. Additionally, the user focused on testing existing components by adding snapshot tests for typography and updating existing components by using `layoutEffect`.
keynotereactpresentationjavascriptspectacle
alex-saunders/ecmasyntax.io
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 105 commits, 22 PRs in 6 months
pwajavascriptecmascript
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