Alex Thompson
Summary
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RockstarAlex Thompson is a Principal Software Engineer based in Atlanta with nine years of experience building full-stack, AI-focused products and leading engineering teams at Microsoft. He blends hands-on development with technical leadership, having progressed from Senior Engineering Manager to Principal Engineer while shipping LLM-driven solutions and scalable web platforms. Alex’s background in geospatial intelligence (including service as a Marine Corps Geospatial Intelligence Chief) and an MS in Cartography and GIS gives him a unique edge in spatially-aware systems and data visualization. He is an active contributor to notable open-source projects like the NuGet Gallery, where he improved accessibility and Markdown rendering for a widely used package repository. Known for bridging product, UX, and backend concerns, he excels at turning complex domain requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
accessibility10
net10
nuget10
asp-net10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
markdown-it9
markdown9
css8
html8
back-end-development8
front-end-development8
javascript7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
NuGet/NuGetGallery
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
NuGet Gallery is a package repository that powers https://www.nuget.org. Use this repo for reporting NuGet.org issues.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 42 commits, 30 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to various aspects of the NuGet Gallery project, focusing on both front-end and back-end improvements. They implemented accessibility enhancements, modifying UI elements and code to improve screen reader compatibility. The user also worked on adding features to the Markdown rendering, like support for section links and auto-identifiers in READMEs, and fixed a 500 error related to section links. Additionally, they updated the application to use `ViewBag.BlockSearchEngineIndexing` and added hidden warning labels.
dotnetreportingnuget-gallerypowerscsharp
applejax124/unicornbot
Oct 2019 - Jun 2024
Bobbit (Next-Generation)
Contributions:21 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 8 months
next-generation
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