Alex Valencia
Ruby On Rails And React Developer at Planning Center
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Valencia is a Ruby on Rails and React developer with nine years of experience building accessible, component-driven web applications and APIs for organizations ranging from enterprise clients to government services. Currently at Planning Center, he blends front-end craftsmanship (React, Redux, Vue, Sass) with backend fluency in Rails and Node to deliver pragmatic, well-tested solutions. His background includes improving developer experiences and accessibility at the VA, creating cross-team JavaScript tooling, and teaching front-end topics—skills that reflect both hands-on coding and knowledge-sharing. A former worship ministry leader, he brings strong team-building and product-ownership instincts to technical work, often pairing design systems (Atomic Design, BEM) with practical DevOps and documentation practices.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Music in Worship, Bachelor’s Degree, Music in Worship at Biola University
English
Github Skills (83)
language-server10
simple-api10
lexicon10
github-cli9
checkout9
api9
api-platform9
git-checkout9
wedeploy9
java9
vscode-extension9
git-branch9
portal9
new-project8
command-line-interface8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexandervalencia/advent-of-code
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:23 PRs, 23 pushes, 25 branches in 4 years 1 month
alexandervalencia/gsbc
May 2017 - Feb 2020
A simple site using React and Google Firebase for the Good Stuff Book Club.
Contributions:10 commits, 22 PRs, 134 pushes in 2 years 9 months
reactgoogle-firebasebook-clubfirebasereactjs
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