Alexander Men
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Men is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently pursuing a part-time master’s at UT Austin and based in Boston. He has built production systems across large tech and engineering firms—most recently joining Microsoft after impactful internships at Meta, Honeywell, Ciena, and others where he improved performance, automation, and developer productivity. Alexander contributes to open-source Rust tooling, notably improving terminal resizing and platform-specific behavior in the popular cursive TUI library, reflecting a systems-oriented backend skillset. He bridges low-level systems work (Linux/BitBake, terminal handling) and full-stack product features (React, GraphQL, WPF), consistently reducing build/config times and improving search and configuration workflows. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-focused, with a knack for turning operational pain points into automated, measurable savings.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
Github Skills (7)
tui10
terminal-emulator10
rust10
terminal-application10
cross-platform8
platform-independent8
multiplatform8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
gyscos/cursive
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
A Text User Interface library for the Rust programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily worked on updating the `cursive` library's backend, specifically regarding terminal resizing and platform-specific behaviors. They addressed window resizing events, implementing conditional behavior for Windows. The user also introduced and modified callbacks, enhancing the library's functionality. These changes involved interactions with the underlying terminal handling using `pancurses` and also platform-specific compiler directives.
programming-languagerustncursestuiterminal
agavrilov/cursive_buffered_backend
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
The buffering backend for any Cursive backend
Contributions:1 review, 82 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 11 months
backend
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