Alex Soble
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Soble is a software engineering leader with 12 years of experience modernizing government services through hands-on coding, architecture, security, and product-minded delivery. He has led and staffed cross-functional teams at 18F, negotiating multi-million-dollar agreements and launching numerous federal projects including get.gov, login.gov, and Notify.gov. Alex builds user-centered solutions—authoring a reusable SNAP eligibility model that reached over 2 million users via anti-hunger organizations—and champions engineering practices like ADRs, threat modeling, and clear documentation. He pairs practical security and compliance know-how (including a published "Navigating ATOs" guide) with an ability to turn complex policy into auditable software. A contributor to the Ruby/Rails ecosystem (notably enhancements to the widely used Devise auth library), he brings both open-source sensibility and government-grade rigor to engineering problems. Based in Chicago and Yale-educated, he enjoys digging into messy problem spaces to deliver pragmatic, trustworthy systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Yale University
Github Skills (8)
testing10
ruby-rails10
user-authentication10
authentication10
devise10
rails10
ruby10
git7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
heartcombo/devise
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the Devise authentication solution, focusing on enhancements related to password validation and user interface updates. Their work involved modifying registration and session views, controllers, and tests to incorporate password length warnings and update wording. They also incorporated feedback from another contributor and worked on test improvements, including password reset functionality.
wardenrailsrails-engineauthenticationruby
mRelief/documents_api
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:315 PRs, 322 pushes, 318 branches in 3 months
public-assistanceapipythonassistancesubmit
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