Alex Saveau
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlex Saveau is a software engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of hands-on experience across systems, backend, and Android/mobile development. He brings a pragmatic focus on efficiency—aptly summarized on GitHub as "Relentless efficiency"—and a track record of contributions to high-profile open-source projects like Rust, Glide, Bevy, and clap that span performance optimizations, parser logic, and UI reliability. Alex’s background includes internships and contractor roles at Google, Amazon, and Robinhood, where he applied rigorous testing and automation practices as well as production-facing feature work. He excels at both low-level systems polish (eliminating redundant syscalls, fixing undefined behavior) and developer experience improvements (documentation, testing, and API refinements). Notably, he has repeatedly improved cross-language projects, bridging Android/Java and Rust ecosystems while maintaining strong attention to code quality and build tooling.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at University of Washington
Stackoverflow
3,997reputation
402kreached
96answers
10questions
android
top-5%
firebase
top-1%
google-cloud-firestore
top-5%
firebase-authentication
top-5%
firebase-realtime-database
top-5%
Github Skills (96)
dependency-management10
parser10
ui-components10
testing10
command-line-interface10
file-operations10
javas10
junit10
typesetting10
build-automation10
firebase10
concurrency10
game-engine10
permission10
linux10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
Triple-T/gradle-play-publisher
May 2018 - Dec 2021
GPP is Android's unofficial release automation Gradle Plugin. It can do anything from building, uploading, and then promoting your App Bundle or APK to publishing app listings and other metadata.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:75 releases, 43 reviews, 478 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits focused on cleaning up, refactoring, and restructuring the Android Gradle plugin. Their changes included implementing best practices, normalizing code style, and rearchitecting the plugin. They were involved in refactoring various task implementations, adding functionality, and improving the API.
gradleapp-bundlemobilemetadatauploading
firebase/FirebaseUI-Android
Sep 2016 - Mar 2020
Optimized UI components for Firebase
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer (Android/Mobile Developer with UI focus)
Full-stack Developer (Android/Mobile Developer with UI focus)Contributions:351 commits, 305 PRs, 2273 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex made several contributions focused on enhancing the UI components of the Android Firebase UI library. These changes included adding support for handling cancelled states, smart lock functionality for password management, and updating the integration of the database and its related tests. Further improvements were made to the email sign-in flow, password visibility toggles, and general styling.
firestorefirebase-functionsfirebaseandroidoptimized
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.