Alexander Poon
Front End Software Engineer (remote) at Getty Images
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlexander Poon is a front-end software engineer with 13 years of full-stack experience, currently building user-facing solutions remotely for Getty Images from Old Toronto. He brings a strong Ruby on Rails and JavaScript background—having upgraded multiple Rails instances and delivered features across React, Elixir, GraphQL and PostgreSQL stacks—while mentoring distributed teams and guiding cloud migrations from Heroku to AWS. His career spans consumer and B2B products, including ticketing, content insight, and lead-management platforms, where he’s balanced feature delivery with robust testing and operational support. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he combines hands-on coding with peer coaching and cross-team collaboration to ship resilient, scalable web experiences.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Software Engineering Option, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Software Engineering Option at University of Waterloo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
simulation10
discord10
msbuild9
multiplayer9
proximity9
linux9
opengl9
server9
cpp9
visual-studio8
cmake8
windows8
xcode7
twitch7
trigger6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
elcanadiano/My-Association-Manager
Sep 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:29 commits in 4 months
elcanadiano/song-queue-manager
Jul 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 84 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 7 months
songreacteventsqueuesweb-based
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