Alexander Pope
Lead Frontend Architect at Norges Bank Investment Management
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolAlexander Pope is a Lead Frontend Architect based in Oslo with 14 years of hands-on experience designing performant, user-focused web applications since the early days of interactive web development. He currently architects an investment management platform for Norges Bank Investment Management and has a strong track record at NRK building high-traffic, resource-constrained, and broadcast-grade web systems—from a TV streaming app and web-components media player to a live graphics renderer and a scalable front-page refactor. Deeply versed in JavaScript, Node.js, HTML and CSS, he also contributes to open-source resilience work such as enhancing superagent’s timeout and retry behavior to harden browser and Node HTTP requests. Alexander pairs a background in film/new media and economics-driven policy roles with pragmatic engineering, bringing an unusual blend of visual design sensibility and systems-level robustness to complex front-end problems.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Comm Policy Economics Law Business, B.Comm Policy Economics Law Business at The University of British ColumbiaToronto Metropolitan University
Norwegian, French, English
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Github Skills (4)
error-handling10
nodejs10
javascript10
testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
forwardemail/superagent
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Ajax for Node.js and browsers (JS HTTP client). Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on enhancing the `superagent` library's error handling and request management capabilities. Their contributions include adding a 'timedout' property to request instances, incorporating basic Node.js retry mechanisms for request errors, and refactoring the `end()` method. Additionally, the user implemented retry handling for browser-based requests, and added a method to set number of retry attempts on error. This work improved the library's robustness and resilience to network issues and timeouts.
ajaxhttp-clientjsnodejs
YR/monotone-cubic-spline
Nov 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 7 months
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