Alexander Kerchum
Senior Software Engineer at Upstart
Youngstown, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Kerchum is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, backend-focused platforms using C#/ .NET and JVM languages alongside modern front-end frameworks like Angular. He has driven large migrations—from SVN to Git and AngularJS to Angular—and helped organizations transition monolithic/SOA systems into microservices while reducing tech debt and improving developer experience. At Upstart he championed containerization and Kubernetes deployments, emphasizing observability, autoscaling, and pragmatic CI to improve runtime performance and operability. Known for clear technical leadership, he breaks complex projects into deliverable parts, conducts rigorous code reviews, and coordinates cross-team efforts to ship reliable systems. Based in Youngstown, Ohio, he pairs hands-on implementation with advocacy for engineering culture and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Youngstown State University
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Github Skills (67)
ruby-client10
node-client10
developer-tools10
kubernetes10
docker10
container-image10
grails9
testing9
javascript-client9
mock-server9
java-client9
python8
proxy8
tcp8
groovy8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KerchumA222/ldap-auth
Nov 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:5 releases, 42 commits, 8 PRs in 9 months
phpauthenticationldapdirectoryldap-authentication
KerchumA222/KerchumA222.github.io
Mar 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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