Alex Swan
Senior Software Engineer at Codingscape
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Swan is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with 14 years of experience building high-traffic web and game systems. He led development of jackbox.tv controllers and commerce systems that generate millions in annual revenue and built viewer-facing Twitch and Alexa experiences used by tens of thousands daily. Comfortable across front- and back-end stacks, he has shipped scalable APIs and internal tooling to simulate multiplayer environments and streamline game operations. A longtime game developer—both professionally and at game jams—he also contributes to open-source gaming tooling, improving touch input and documentation for a lightweight JS game library. Alex combines product-minded engineering with a knack for player-facing UX and monetization systems, making him equally at home prototyping new interactive features or hardening production services.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Information Technology, BS, Information Technology at Brigham Young University
Stackoverflow
535reputation
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15questions
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
html8
objective-c6
xcodebuild6
ios6
android6
uiviewcontroller6
database6
django6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
straker/kontra
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
A lightweight JavaScript gaming micro-library, optimized for js13kGames.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 63 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the JavaScript gaming micro-library. Their work involved updating and improving the user interface elements, specifically focusing on the documentation and touch input handling. The user also made modifications to the core library files, likely to improve the library's responsiveness and functionality. These changes suggest a focus on enhancing the library's usability and compatibility with different input methods.
jsjavascriptgame-librarykontragaming
BoldBigflank/echoprint-ios-sample
May 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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