Alex Wheeler
Founder at CCN Health
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wheeler is a founder and software engineer with 12 years of experience building pragmatic, easy-to-deploy healthcare technology from Los Angeles. He leads CCN Health, which delivers a minimalist Remote Patient Monitoring platform using 4G/LTE cellular devices that removes pairing friction and streamlines Medicare-reimbursable RPM programs. Prior roles include engineering at VTS and teaching at UC Berkeley’s coding bootcamp, reflecting a blend of hands-on product development and mentorship. Alex contributes to open-source Ruby tooling—most notably backend API work for the Flipper feature-flag library—bringing practical API design, middleware, and testing experience to production systems. He pairs an economist’s analytical mindset with founder-level product focus, often working directly with providers and billers to turn complex clinical workflows into simple software.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Economics, Bachelor's degree Economics at Boston University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
ruby10
rspec10
feature-flags10
api10
backend10
apidoc10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
caching9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
flippercloud/flipper
Apr 2016 - Oct 2018
🐬 Beautiful, performant feature flags for Ruby.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 98 PRs, 256 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily focus on developing the API for Flipper, a feature flag library for Ruby. They implemented API actions, middleware, and endpoints for feature management, including boolean and group gates. Additionally, the user created tests to ensure the functionality of the API endpoints. The user refactored existing UI code and added a Moneta adapter to allow caching of flipper features.
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AlexWheeler/blog
Aug 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 3 months
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