Alexander Fallenstedt
Senior Software Engineer at Upbound
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Fallenstedt is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable, instrumented systems and favoring short feedback loops to deliver maintainable software with high confidence. He has shipped across the stack at product-stage companies including New Relic and Decodable (acquired by Redis), and now applies that expertise at Upbound. Alexander contributes to notable open-source projects—such as enhancing the Terraform New Relic provider with NRQL alert management—and has a history of improving front-end accessibility and code quality in React components. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he pairs a pragmatic engineering approach with a background in biology and public policy, bringing interdisciplinary problem solving to software design. Outside work you’ll likely find him gardening or riding his bike, a detail that underscores his steady, iterative approach to both life and engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree B.S. Biology Minor in Planning Public Policy & Management, Bachelor's Degree B.S. Biology Minor in Planning Public Policy & Management at University of OregonGeneral Study, General Study at Portland State UniversityCertificate in Web and Mobile Development, Certificate in Web and Mobile Development at Epicodus
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
alertdialog10
alertview10
alerts10
ui-design10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
uid10
terraformer10
go10
prop10
front-end-development10
props10
react10
accessibility9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
balloob/react-sidebar
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
A sidebar component for React
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed primarily to the front-end development of the React sidebar component. Their work involved adding ARIA roles for accessibility, updating deprecated React methods in example code, and binding 'this' to necessary functions. They also updated and formatted the responsive example and ensured code quality by running a linter.
reactside-bar
newrelic/terraform-provider-newrelic
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Terraform provider for New Relic
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 28 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alexander implemented new features related to NRQL alert condition creation and management within the Terraform provider. These changes included adding support for "slide by" functionality, which allows for smoothing chart lines, and refactoring for deprecated fields. The contributions also involved dependency updates and bug fixes related to deprecated functionalities like `since_value` and `evaluation_offset` fields. Furthermore, the user added the entity guid to the NRQL alert conditions.
newrelicterraform-providerterraformdeveloper-toolkitdeveloper-tools
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