Alexander Standke
Senior Software Developer at Shopify
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Standke is a Senior Software Developer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native and commerce systems, currently improving merchant experiences at Shopify from Los Angeles as a remote-first engineer. He has a strong background in open-source cloud platforms—contributing full-time to Cloud Foundry, Istio, and Kubernetes at Pivotal—and brings production-grade distributed systems knowledge honed at VMware. Prior roles span fast-moving SaaS environments like AppFolio where he shipped landlord-facing tooling, showing a blend of product focus and deep engineering. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he favors remote collaboration and steady contribution over relocation. Collected academic foundations in computer science from Westmont College underpin a pragmatic approach to solving complex backend and platform problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Westmont College
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Github Skills (200)
photo10
automation10
webextension10
fault-injection10
kodi10
webhooks10
tracks10
observe10
pcf10
python10
controller10
ruby10
docker-container10
istio10
cloud-foundry10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
XanderStrike/showcase
Sep 2018 - Dec 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
XanderStrike/web
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
my websites
Contributions:2 PRs, 63 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 4 months
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