Alex Shook
Software Engineering Sr. Analyst at Brooksource
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Shook is a pragmatic senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building and modernizing web platforms, currently focused as a Software Engineering Sr. Analyst in New York. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and API design, driving technical quality, reducing debt, and improving performance across product and fintech domains. Alex pairs hands-on refactoring and architecture work with mentoring—creating onboarding processes, conducting pair programming, and raising team standards to cut unplanned work dramatically. Starting his coding journey in COBOL around the Neopets era, he brings a long view of maintainability and pragmatic scalability to fast-moving teams.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyB.A. International Relations, B.A. International Relations at Lehigh UniversityAsian Studies, Asian Studies at Kansai Gaidai University
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Github Skills (21)
coders7
incident-management7
rails7
apiary6
ruby-on-rails6
api6
json-api6
ruby6
management5
grape-api5
open-source5
blueprint5
javascript4
spec4
json4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chandeeland/grape-apiary
Dec 2017 - Dec 2019
Allows for generating an Apiary Blueprint (http://apiary.io) for you Grape API
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 comments in 2 years
apiblueprintapiarygrape-apigrape
alexshook/dotfiles
May 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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