Alex Teshome
Software Engineer at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Teshome is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of professional experience building web applications across startups and larger organizations, currently contributing at Gusto. A University of Toronto CS graduate, he has strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and design patterns, and a track record shipping React front-ends and Node/Express backends with MongoDB/MySQL. His work history spans product-focused roles at PartnerStack and Bluecity.ai and earlier automation and dashboarding at Bell, demonstrating comfort with both team-based agile delivery and solo product ownership. Alex has repeatedly delivered production-facing features such as authentication, CRUD systems, SEO-focused Gatsby sites, and cron-driven automation, and he continues to evolve systems by iterating on deployed apps for real clients. Based in New York, he blends practical engineering with a growth mindset, often taking on cross-cutting responsibilities from UX implementation to backend API design.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Toronto
EnglishProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alexteshome/FantasyBB
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 9 months
alexteshome/portfolio
Jan 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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