Alex Tharp
Staff Engineer at Linden Lab
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Tharp is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale web platforms and teams, currently helping evolve Second Life at Linden Lab. He’s a polyglot full‑stack engineer and former engineering lead who has architected modular, plugin-driven CMS platforms, rebuilt legacy eCommerce stacks, and shipped high‑impact features at companies like CareerBuilder, Dribbble, and Calendly. Comfortable across Rails, React, GraphQL, Elasticsearch and DevOps tooling, he combines hands‑on coding with mentoring and on‑call reliability for long‑running production systems. Alex brings a deep interest in open web architecture, virtual/augmented worlds, and hardware intersections—an outlook reflected in both product work and an enduring hobbyist history of running an online RPG that once drew tens of thousands of registrations. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs system-level thinking with a taste for creative, user-centered engineering.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Brookwood High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (94)
chat10
heroku-deployment10
redux-store10
javascript-api10
rendering10
react-rails10
api10
server-side10
sandbox10
redux-saga10
scripting10
simulation10
viewer10
dynamic-content10
redux10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
toastercup/resume
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
Just another overengineered resume
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
toastercup/toastercup.io
Aug 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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