Alex Slaughter
Chief Technology Officer at ActiveClass
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Slaughter is a seasoned software engineer based in Arizona with 12 years of experience building full‑stack web applications. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Canvas LMS, where his work spans Ruby on Rails back-ends and JavaScript/JSX front-ends to implement LTI integrations, grading edge cases, and migration features. Comfortable shipping across the stack, Alex focuses on practical interoperability and user-facing education tooling while resolving tricky parsing and integration issues. His blend of long-term commercial experience and active OSS contributions suggests a developer who values maintainable, standards-driven solutions that work in real educational environments.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering at Arizona State UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Corona del Sol High School
English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
lti10
interoperability10
rails10
interop10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
apidoc9
api9
jsx9
backend8
front-end-development8
back-end-development8
rspec7
php6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
instructure/canvas-lms
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 90 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the development of features related to the LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) standard for the Canvas LMS platform. The commits demonstrate work on both front-end (JavaScript/JSX) and back-end (Ruby/Ruby on Rails) aspects. Their work includes implementing LTI requests for page information, handling LTI grades with non-parseable scores and addressing issues related to the new quizzes return button, the display of assignment submission dates, and the addition of new functionalities such as LTI API endpoints for listing external tools and adding the domain to assignments and quiz-next migration events.
lmsinstructurecanvas-lmsgerrit-mirror
slaughter550/phpunit
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019
The PHP Unit Testing framework.
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 8 months
testing-frameworktestingphpunit-testing-frameworkxdebug
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