Alex D
Senior Partner Engineer at Fullstack Academy
Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander D is a Senior Partner Engineer with a decade of experience building AI-native developer platforms, integrations, and secure production tooling across companies from Apple to GitHub. He combines full‑stack fluency in Python, JavaScript, Java and Go with hands‑on systems work—implementing secret scanning in Go, authoring SIEM and vulnerability management integrations that drove millions in sales, and building internal GraphQL and AWS tooling. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Ember UI components and strengthened TypeScript bindings for node-rdkafka, reflecting a breadth across front-end, back-end and testing infrastructure. Based in Vermont, he also teaches full‑stack engineering and has a background in photography and linguistics, which informs his focus on clear developer documentation and engaging technical education.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visual Arts and Design Photography, Visual Arts and Design Photography at Istituto Europeo di DesignCertificate Computer Programming, Certificate Computer Programming at PDX Code GuildBachelor of Arts (BA) Literature and Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Literature and Linguistics at The International University College of TurinDigital photography, Digital photography at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
English, Italian, Spanish
Github Skills (22)
javascript10
react-components10
ember-data10
testing10
typescript10
kafka10
librdkafka10
react-component10
component-kit10
qunit10
ember10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
apidoc9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ember-power-addons/ember-power-select
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
The extensible select component built for ember.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the `ember-power-select` component, a select component built for Ember.js. Their contributions involved adding and modifying components like group components, updating templates to support component customization, and implementing tests to verify the new features. The user also addressed some bugs and made minor adjustments to the component's API.
ember
Blizzard/node-rdkafka
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Node.js bindings for librdkafka
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 26 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the TypeScript definitions for the `node-rdkafka` library. This involved creating types for the `Client`, `KafkaConsumer`, and `AdminClient` classes, ensuring proper type safety. The user also integrated changes for the `AdminClient`, including smoke tests. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the build configuration files, improving the build process.
librdkafkanodejskafka
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