Summary
Alexander Govea is a Senior Software Engineer with over seven years of front-end experience building high-performance, scalable SPAs using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Redux, and modern CSS methodologies. Currently at Cision, he drives architecture decisions, mentors junior engineers, serves as scrum master, and led a successful migration of a major app to TypeScript in three sprints. His background includes freelance and e-commerce work where he boosted site speed by 35% through refactors, lazy loading, and API optimization, and applied SEO-first practices for client sites. Comfortable across design and engineering, he practices atomic and mobile-first design, SOLID principles, and test-driven development with Jest and React Testing Library. Known for setting team coding standards and documentation on Confluence, he combines hands-on coding with effective coaching and process improvements. Based in Oxnard, CA, he blends a psychology/Spanish academic foundation with practical web performance and team leadership skills that often surface in cross-functional collaboration.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Psychology/ Spanish, Recent graduate, Bachelor's degree, Psychology/ Spanish, Recent graduate at University of California, Santa Barbara
English, Spanish, Italian