Alexander Gugel
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Gugel is a software engineer with 13 years' experience building high-performance web and backend systems, currently working on ads at Meta in London. He combines deep JavaScript expertise—ranging from front-end rendering engines at Famo.us to Node.js package manager tooling—with practical production experience on large-scale platforms. His open-source work includes significant refactors to an alternative Node package manager (ied), improving dependency resolution and CLI ergonomics for programmatic use. Alexander has a track record of fast prototyping and systems thinking from startups to enterprise contracts, including real-time analytics, DHT crawlers, and UX-focused components. He pairs a pragmatic, performance-first mindset with mentorship and curriculum development experience, making him effective across product, platform, and developer-facing tooling. A subtle throughline in his career is making complex systems feel simple for users and other developers.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
English, German
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Github Skills (20)
dependency-management10
javascript10
package-management10
command-line-interface10
command-line10
nodejs10
cli10
sem9
error-handling9
testing8
aws-cli6
amazon-ec26
sailsjs6
waterline6
stackexchange-redis6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
alexanderGugel/ied
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
:package: Like npm, but faster - an alternative package manager for Node
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:546 commits, 88 PRs, 432 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the package manager's command-line interface and core functionality. They focused on restructuring the codebase, fixing dependency resolution, and enabling programmatic usage. The user also implemented improvements like handling multiple installation targets and enhancing error handling, leading to a more robust and user-friendly experience.
npm-likepackage-managerfasternodejsnpm
alexanderGugel/follow-me
Jul 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year
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