Alexander Keliris
Vice President Of Engineering at spotify-tui
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolAlexander Keliris is a Vice President of Engineering and full-stack developer with 10 years’ experience building resilient, developer-focused products using Rust, TypeScript, React/React Native, Node.js, Postgres and AWS serverless infrastructure. He combines hands-on engineering and infrastructure-as-code expertise (Terraform, AWS CDK) with leadership experience delivering mission-critical payment systems and large-scale mobile apps. As the author and lead maintainer of spotify-tui — a popular Rust terminal client with 11K+ GitHub stars and ~100 contributors — he demonstrates an ability to grow and steward open-source communities while shipping polished UX. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and cloud, he has contributed meaningful Rust improvements to projects like rspotify and emphasizes code quality and async-ready architecture. Based in London, he brings a musician’s attention to detail and a philosopher’s analytic mindset to product and tooling problems. He believes Rust will reshape software engineering and focuses on building developer tooling that scales.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Philosophy, Master's Degree Philosophy at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (17)
tui10
ui-design10
spotify-api10
uid10
sdk10
front-end-development10
async-await10
terminal-ui10
rust10
spotify10
command-line-interface9
command-line9
crate9
command-line-utility9
reqwest9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Rigellute/spotify-tui
Aug 2019 - Nov 2021
Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 75 reviews, 746 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on developing the UI for the Spotify TUI application. They implemented basic track selection and playback features by modifying the core application logic, as well as building out a new table view component for displaying track information. The user appears to be expanding the TUI application with added functionality and improving the user experience by refactoring the codebase.
terminal-basedrustspotifyterminalmusic
ramsayleung/rspotify
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Spotify Web API SDK implemented on Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 13 PRs, 31 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the `rspotify` project by implementing and enhancing the Spotify Web API SDK. Their contributions include adding the `position_ms` parameter to the `start_playback` function, which improves playback control. They also updated the codebase to use the Rust 2018 edition, preparing for async/await functionality, and ran `rustfmt` across the codebase for consistent formatting. These commits demonstrate a focus on expanding the API's capabilities and improving code quality.
apirustapi-sdksdkspotify
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