Alex Simons
Technical Lead at UniGroup, Inc.
O'Fallon, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Simons is a Technical Lead with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure, multi-tenant full‑stack systems using Kotlin/Java, Spring Cloud, React, and PostgreSQL, backed by AWS EKS and DevOps pipelines. He has led teams through complex integrations—OAuth2/Keycloak identity brokering, API gateways, and distributed service orchestration—while maintaining a pragmatic focus on performance and reliability. Previously he drove mission-critical, map-based logistics software for air mobility at Tapestry Solutions and has deep experience modernizing legacy Java EE systems. An active contributor to UI tooling, he has improved JetBrains theme components and fixed memory leaks in open-source projects, reflecting a detail-oriented approach to both front-end polish and backend robustness. Based in O'Fallon, Illinois, he combines strong academic foundations (B.A. in Computer Science, 3.8 GPA) with a streak of playful creativity seen in his lighter GitHub persona.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
English
Github Skills (6)
plugin-development10
javas10
colours10
ui-design10
customisation10
java10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisRM/material-theme-jetbrains
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021
JetBrains theme of Material Theme
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the theme customization of a JetBrains IDE. They focused on modifying and patching the UI components, particularly addressing the background color of the completion popup. Their work involved adding accent colors to different UI elements like the live indicator and spotlight borders. Additionally, they refactored code to utilize a shared library and prevented memory leaks upon application closure.
jetbrains-themedark-themematerial-designmaterial-themejetbrains
Unthrottled/cognito-an-oauth-story
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:15 PRs, 35 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 8 months
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