Alex Shook
Senior Software Engineering Consultant 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)
coders8
ruby7
rails7
management6
json-api6
incident-management6
ruby-on-rails5
api5
apiary5
grape-api5
open-source5
spec5
blueprint4
react4
javascript3
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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