Alex Thornton
Sr. Software Architect at University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Thornton is a senior software architect and award-winning university lecturer with 12+ years of professional experience building end-to-end, data-driven systems primarily on C#, .NET, and SQL Server. He combines deep hands-on engineering—implementing custom DSLs, advanced algorithms (min-cost/max-flow, Munkres matching), and bespoke serializers—with production architecture work such as WCF service discovery, Service Broker queuing, and CEP integrations. A practiced communicator and course author, he has taught large classes across programming, compilers, and software design, earning campus-wide teaching honors and repeatedly being voted Outstanding Professor. Equally comfortable in legacy C++/MFC codebases and modern testable .NET designs, he champions unit testing and pragmatic, auditable solutions that map to real business workflows. Based in Irvine, CA, Alex is notable for blending academic rigor with practical product delivery and a habit of learning new paradigms and languages as needed to solve hard problems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (46)
test-coverage10
dotnet10
cross-platform10
instrumentation10
coverage10
bytecode10
coverlet10
dotnet-core10
code-coverage10
csharp10
istanbul10
poco9
plagiarism-detection9
entity-framework9
orm9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexthornton1/coverlet
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Cross platform code coverage for .NET
Contributions:19 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
dotnetcsharpcoveragecross-platformcode-coverage
alexthornton1/lessify
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
middlewarebrowserify-transformtransformbrowserify
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