Alex Stine
Site Reliability Engineer at Waystar
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Stine is a Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building trustworthy, resilient systems across startups and enterprises from Dallas. He blends SRE and DevOps expertise—GCP, AWS, automation with Ansible/Python/Bash, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code—with a strong accessibility background honed as a senior accessibility specialist and open-source front-end contributor to WordPress Gutenberg. Alex’s work uniquely spans both low-level reliability (cloud architecture, patching, load-balanced fault tolerance) and user-facing accessibility improvements that make interfaces usable by people with disabilities. At Waystar he scales and secures production systems; previously he led DevOps at Kinsta and architected accessible, automated deployments at Incsub and Warp. Colleagues rely on him for practical, long-lived solutions and for translating accessibility needs into engineering priorities.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Computer Information Systems, Certificate Computer Information Systems at California Institute of Applied Technology
English
Github Skills (12)
accessibility10
wordpress10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
gutenberg10
react10
html9
e2e-testing8
css8
e2e-test8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
WordPress/gutenberg
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:769 reviews, 92 commits, 133 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the accessibility of the Gutenberg block editor within the WordPress ecosystem. Their commits addressed various accessibility issues, including improving font size dropdowns, font weight/style descriptions, and screen reader announcements for formatting changes. They also worked on improving the user experience for list view and block inserter components, including keyboard navigation and focus management. The user's work touched upon multiple front-end components to enhance the overall usability for users with disabilities.
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
alexstine/gutenberg
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
block-editorwordpressgutenbergwordpress-pluginbeyond
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