Alexander Bird
Distinguished Software Engineer at Open Source Community
Kimberley, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexander Bird is a Distinguished Software Engineer based in Kimberley, British Columbia with a decade of experience building reliable, team-oriented software across startups, enterprise, and open-source communities. He has shipped production systems at AWS and Shareworks by Morgan Stanley, and now applies senior technical leadership to industrial software at Hunter Industries. Comfortable learning new stacks quickly, Alexander has a track record of delivering maintainable business software and automation (from custom web builds to API integrations developed during university research). An active open-source maintainer and community participant, he shares code and expertise on GitHub, Stack Overflow, and npm while continually refining practical, team-friendly engineering practices. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs formal software engineering training with a hands-on mindset honed through diverse roles from freelance web development to large-scale cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Software Engineering at The University of Calgary
English, French
Stackoverflow
3,985reputation
1.9mreached
86answers
8questions
powershell
top-5%
scripting
top-5%
windows
top-1%
Github Skills (119)
windows10
javascript10
typescript10
powershell9
testing9
material-ui9
clipboard9
facebook9
react9
scripting9
highmaps8
angular8
cli8
superset8
react-components8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
alexanderbird/birdfood.app
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:180 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
alexanderbird/alexanderbird.software
Mar 2019 - May 2024
https://alexanderbird.software
Contributions:169 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
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