Alex Wait
Senior Software Engineer at Topstep
Washougal, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wait is a senior software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and leading backend teams to production, most recently guiding backend efforts at Medical Solutions and now at Topstep. He specializes in Node.js, NestJS, SQL Server/Postgres, Docker, and Azure DevOps, and has a proven track record shipping feature-rich platforms with strong test coverage (one project reached 700+ backend tests). Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he balances individual contributor work with team leadership and stakeholder communication across startups and larger enterprises. Alex has a history of scaling background processing (Sidekiq) to handle high-throughput campaigns and migrating legacy desktop apps to web-hosted solutions. He started programming at 15 and brings a practical, product-focused mindset informed by a Software Engineering Technology degree from Oregon Tech. Colleagues know him as someone who treats coding as fun while driving rigorous, test-first delivery.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Technology Software Engineering, Software Engineering Technology Software Engineering at Oregon Institute of Technology
Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
native-module10
pinch10
instagram-api10
fonts10
angularjs10
camera-roll10
sequel10
twitter-client10
css10
windows10
cropperjs10
ruby10
editor10
jruby10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bobber205/instagram-ruby-gem
Aug 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
apiinstagramgeminstagram-api
Chirpify/gnip-ruler
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
apiinteractrules
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