Alexander Simpson
Senior Software Engineer at Target
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Simpson is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend services and reliability improvements at Target, where he progressed from SRE to software engineering and now leads on an inclusive team. He specializes in Java/Kotlin, Python, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, and has hands-on experience delivering Spring/Micronaut and Node.js APIs as well as Ionic mobile integrations for reverse logistics. Comfortable across the stack, he combines production-focused reliability instincts with pragmatic API design to keep large retail systems moving. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs formal CS training with frontline operations leadership earlier in his career, which gives him an unusual blend of systems thinking and people-first supervision.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Metropolitan State UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Programming, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Computer Programming at Minneapolis Community and Technical CollegeTransfered to Minneapolis Community and Technical College, Transfered to Minneapolis Community and Technical College at Anoka Technical College
Github Skills (27)
kotlin10
groovy10
java10
serverless10
jpa10
relational-databases10
micronaut9
sql9
hibernate9
microservices9
rest-api8
api8
jdbc8
application-framework8
api-client8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ics-499-team-1/drive-doctor-ui
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:21 reviews, 23 commits, 31 PRs in 1 month
ics-499-team-1/drive-doctor-api
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:46 reviews, 45 commits, 25 PRs in 1 month
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