Alex Whitt
Software Developer at Invocation of Awesome LLC
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Whitt is a software developer with a decade of hands-on experience building test automation and backend systems, currently based in Columbus, Ohio and working at Ride Health. He has a strong background in Python and systems engineering from roles at Vertiv and Westell, where he built monitoring and test automation for telecom and SaaS hardware. Alex is also an experienced founder and operator, running Invocation of Awesome LLC for over a decade and managing cross-functional teams, contractors, and the business-side tasks of legal, accounting, and creative direction. As an open-source contributor he improved the Clojure test runner Kaocha by integrating spec.alpha/spec.test.check tooling and adding generative testing support, showing attention to rigorous, specification-driven testing. Comfortable across engineering, IT, and product domains, he combines practical automation skills with a creative streak—authoring an open-source novel that grew out of his original game project.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), International Business, 3.531, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), International Business, 3.531 at The Ohio State University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
clojure10
testing-library10
mstest10
ui-testing10
teste10
clojure-cli10
testing10
clojurescript9
alias6
constructor6
typedef6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lambdaisland/kaocha
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Full featured next gen Clojure test runner
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 3 PRs, 54 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to enhancing the Clojure test runner, `kaocha`, by adding and refactoring features related to Clojure's `spec.alpha` and `spec.test.check` libraries. Their work included creating utility functions, integrating a generative testing plugin, and refactoring existing code for reuse within the `spec` testing framework. The user's commits show a focus on improving the testing capabilities of `kaocha` and integrating it with Clojure's specification-based testing tools.
full-featuredtestingtest-runnernext-genclojurescript
WhittlesJr/user.js
May 2020 - Mar 2025
An ongoing comprehensive user.js template for configuring and hardening Firefox privacy, security and anti-fingerprinting
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
firefoxantiprivacyongoingsecurity
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