Alexander Deschamps
Senior Software Engineer at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Deschamps is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications, specializing in JavaScript and Ruby/Rails while also shipping services in Kotlin, Go, and Python. He’s driven product-scale work—designing APIs, migrating synchronous processes to asynchronous systems, and scaling schema-driven platforms to handle millions of items—at companies including Peloton, Benchling, and now Etsy. His background as an EMT informs a calm, methodical approach to on-call incident response and high-pressure troubleshooting, and he’s regularly taken “fire chief” duties to diagnose and resolve production issues while designing longer-term fixes. A hands-on mentor and educator, he’s taught and guided junior engineers and helped introduce new languages and tooling across teams. He combines a scientist’s curiosity (biology training) with practical engineering, often pairing load-tested APIs and microservices with pragmatic operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Biology General, Biology General at Suny Old WestburyWeb Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBinghamton UniversityBachelor's of Science Biological Sciences, Bachelor's of Science Biological Sciences at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (5)
reporter6
allure4
testcafe3
javascript2
ajax2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aadeschamps/random_thoughts_api
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
aadeschamps/port_page
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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