Alexander Swensen
Software Engineer at Freelance
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Swensen is a versatile full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, serverless and cloud-native applications for healthcare, events, and media clients. He blends hands-on expertise in Node.js, React, PostgreSQL and AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, Aurora) with strong practices in automated testing, CI/CD and code review to improve reliability and deployment velocity. As a contractor and senior engineer at companies like Fresh, Kno2, and Eventbrite, he has led architecture and frontend product initiatives that balanced performance, security, and UX. He contributes reusable libraries to the open-source community and favors pragmatic, maintainable solutions that reduce operational overhead. Based in Nashville, he brings a rare mix of documentary storytelling roots and engineering discipline, which helps him translate complex product needs into clear, user-centered software.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Documentary Film, Documentary Film at Andrews University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
python10
dialog10
web-performance10
runner10
flask10
sweetalert10
javascript10
toast10
web-developer10
html10
arduino-ide10
angular10
typescript10
mobile-first10
hybrid-mobile-app10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
AlexSwensen/circleci-api
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
A Node utility to interact with the CircleCi API in JavaScript or TypeScript
Contributions:1 release, 32 commits, 44 pushes in 8 months
circlecijavascripttypescript
AlexSwensen/alexswensen.io-old
Dec 2015 - Oct 2022
My website at alexswensen.io
Contributions:3 reviews, 223 commits, 119 PRs in 6 years 11 months
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