Alexander Chip
President Founder at Top Score Education
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Chip is the founder and president of Top Score Education, a mission-driven boutique test prep and tutoring company he launched in 2005 that now serves students across four continents through a network of 30 full-time educators. With a Duke BA and an MA in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins, he blends rigorous exam mastery—he still takes the SAT/ACT periodically to model techniques—with pedagogical creativity, having built project-based programs and curated materials that adapt to diverse learning needs. A Washington, D.C. native and former football player, he leverages deep local school knowledge and two decades of experience to offer both empathetic support and disciplined instruction. Beyond operations, Alexander contributes technical chops as a back-end developer to open-source projects like Akeneo PIM, improving attribute normalization and export capabilities. He is known for translating complex testing strategies into accessible, multimodal lessons for neurodiverse learners and families navigating admissions anxiety. His leadership balances hands-on tutoring, educator development, and scalable program design aimed at putting every student "in a position to succeed."
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, English, History, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English, History at Duke UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Landon School
Github Skills (7)
phpunit10
php10
pim10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
open-source9
mysql7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
akeneo/pim-community-dev
Apr 2016 - May 2017
[Community Development Repository] The open source Product Information Management (PIM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 59 PRs, 566 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the Akeneo PIM community development repository by enhancing the Attribute Normalizer. Their work focused on expanding the functionality related to attribute export, incorporating additional fields like number minimum/maximum, decimal/negative allowance, and WYSIWYG enablement. The user's contributions also included updates to the specification files, ensuring the normalizer correctly handled all available attribute fields and properties.
ziggyinformation-managementjavascriptphpbackbonejs
a2xchip/pim-community-dev
Apr 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:238 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 3 months
phpinformation-managementproduct-information-managementpim
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