Alex Spencer
Staff Technical Program Manager at Shopify
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Spencer is a Staff Technical Program Manager and systems architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable systems across SaaS, IoT, and defense domains. He blends deep full-stack engineering skills—particularly Ruby/Rails, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and Postgres—with program leadership in AWS, CI/CD, and SDLC best practices to drive velocity and reliability. Alex has led teams of 30+ and served as principal architect for multi-system integrations that sustained 99%+ uptime for tens of thousands of devices, and more recently ensured DoD-grade availability for a system-of-systems. He’s equally comfortable mentoring junior engineers into senior contributors and optimizing performance by moving complex SQL out of materialized views back into application logic. Based in Tampa, FL, Alex is motivated by creating repeatable SOPs and standardized practices that multiply top-tier talent to deliver high client value quickly. His long-running affection for Ruby underscores a pragmatic engineering ethos that favors clarity and measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Idaho State University
Stackoverflow
786reputation
54kreached
62answers
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Github Skills (25)
ruby-on-rails6
php6
max6
css6
wordpress6
devise6
ruby6
infinity6
coffeescript6
rails-app5
repack4
rails3
typescript2
converter2
react2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aspencer8111/explori
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:15 pushes in 10 days
aspencer8111/dotfiles-local
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 27 days
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