Alexander Jalkanen
Software Engineer at Stripe
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Jalkanen is a software engineer based in Seattle with a decade of hands-on experience building production services and consumer apps, most recently joining Stripe after a progressive engineering career at Okta. He brings strong C++ fundamentals from academic work at the University of Michigan and practical full-stack experience—shipping mobile apps in Dart/Flutter and Java, a Ruby on Rails website, and real-time logging infrastructure using WebSockets and AWS for CI/CD. Known for turning experimental side projects into shipped products, he formerly led course labs and tooling as an instructional aide for large CS classes, giving him both mentoring and product-facing operational instincts. Alexander combines low-level systems thinking with modern cloud-native practices and a habit of learning new languages and frameworks to solve tangible problems quickly.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE Computer Science Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (3)
react-native-app2
react2
react-native1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AlexJalkanen/Park-A2
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
AlexJalkanen/StudBud-HTNE
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Hack the North East Hackathon Project
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
pythonnorth
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