Alexander Magana
Senior Software Engineer II at Trumid
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Magana is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Chicago with nine years of experience building full‑stack web applications across finance and networking domains. He currently contributes to Trumid’s platform after a series of progressive engineering roles at Cisco and Epsilon, where he consistently delivered measurable reliability and performance improvements—reducing deployment failures, API load, and test flakiness through pragmatic automation, caching, and frontend state refactors. Comfortable across frontend (infinite scrolling, D3 visualizations) and backend tooling (GraphQL, REST, Python, Docker), he blends product-focused engineering with a knack for developer experience improvements in CI and testing. Trained in Computer Science with an unusual Astronomy background, he brings analytical rigor and curiosity to system design and debugging at scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Astronomy, Computer Science Minor, Bachelor of Science - BS Astronomy, Computer Science Minor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English
Github Skills (46)
formik10
react-native10
react-hooks10
higher-order-component10
react10
visualization9
diagram9
drag9
factories8
momentum8
svg8
neo4j8
jwt8
flowchart8
redux8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
amagana8/slipstats
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Discord bot to show match statistics for Super Smash Bros Melee.
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 months
discord-botstatisticsdiscordmeleenodejs
amagana8/poker-monte-carlo
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Uses Monte Carlo Methods to determine the probability a starting hand in poker will win the round.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 4 months
monte-carlomonte-carlo-methodsnumpy
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