Alex Wright
Director Of Technical Operations & Innovation
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wright is a mission-driven technology leader and founder with nine years of hands-on experience building AI-enabled backend architectures and low-barrier front-end solutions that expand access for historically underserved communities. As Director of Technical Operations & Innovation at Level he architected a nationwide distribution network reaching 6,800+ users across 1,000 facilities, led an AI-first transition that cut contractor costs by 15%, and engineered an offline AI career mentor for zero-internet environments. He blends product, engineering, and go-to-market experience from leading migrations of massive catalogs (60,000 SKUs) to modern platforms and scaling a SaaS media product through acquisition. An active front-end contributor to the popular Understrap WordPress starter theme, Alex pairs pragmatic engineering with creative digital marketing roots from his Austin agency, bringing both technical depth and design sensibility to complex, people-centered systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Photography, Sculpture, Painting, Digital Arts, Photography, Sculpture, Painting, Digital Arts at School of the Museum of Fine ArtsBA, International Relations, Soviet and East European Studies, BA, International Relations, Soviet and East European Studies at Tufts University
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Github Skills (16)
css10
wordpress10
sass10
bootstra10
web-development10
bootstrap10
wordpress-themes10
html9
safari6
twitter-bootstrap6
carrousel6
campaign-monitor6
javascript6
mobile-safari6
jquery6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
understrap/understrap
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Underscores + Bootstrap = Understrap, the renowned open-source WordPress starter theme.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 232 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on front-end development tasks, evidenced by changes to CSS files for styling and the addition of Sass Maps functionality to the build process. They also made adjustments to the HTML structure, specifically removing unnecessary wrapper classes in the navigation bar and organizing sidebar files. Furthermore, the user updated the theme's editor, incorporating pluggable function wrappers and updating demo code examples.
bootstrap-wordpresswordpress-starterwordpress-frameworkunderstrapwordpress-theme
alex-wright-net/understrap-child
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Basic Child Theme for UnderStrap Theme Framework
Contributions:59 pushes, 7 branches, 9 tags in 1 year 2 months
understrapcsswordpress-themeunderstrap-theme-frameworktheme-framework
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