Alexander Bea
Lead UI Engineer at High Definition Vehicle Insurance (HDVI)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Bea is a Lead UI Engineer in Madison, WI with 11 years of experience designing and shipping web applications that improve people’s lives. He blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship with full-stack sensibilities, contributing notable UI components and sanitization improvements to open-source projects like ApostropheCMS and sanitize-html. At HDVI he progressed from Senior UI Developer to Lead, applying pragmatic component-driven design to insurance-facing products. His background in developer relations and technical support gives him a knack for clear documentation and cross-team collaboration. He holds an MA in Communication from Virginia Tech, which informs his focus on usable interfaces and effective user-facing messaging.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Arts Communication, Masters of Arts Communication at Virginia TechBachelors of Arts Communicaion, Bachelors of Arts Communicaion at Marist University
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
ui-components10
testing10
sc10
scs10
vue10
xss10
html10
sanitization10
css9
nodejs9
regex8
security7
eslint7
neat6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apostrophecms/sanitize-html
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis. Built on htmlparser2 for speed and tolerance
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 111 commits, 134 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `sanitize-html` library. Their contributions included fixing bugs and merging code, adding new features for more flexible markup handling, and integrating an eslint configuration. The changes span both the core logic within `src/index.js` and the test suite `test/test.js`, showing involvement in both the implementation and validation aspects of the project. They also worked on more advanced sanitization strategies for more robust XSS mitigation.
speedelementstolerancejavascriptclean
apostrophecms/apostrophe
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
A full-featured, open-source content management framework built with Node.js that empowers organizations by combining in-context editing and headless architecture in a full-stack JS environment.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1382 reviews, 922 commits, 809 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's commits primarily focus on front-end development, specifically related to the ApostropheCMS UI. The user added components to the UI (AposButton, AposSpinner) and also modified existing UI components such as AposTagList, AposTree, and AposContextMenu. Their work appears to center on building and maintaining user interface elements, components, and their associated styles, showing proficiency in front-end development and component styling.
cmscms-frameworkfull-featurednode-jsfull-stack
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