Alexander Tesfamichael
Self-employed
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Tesfamichael is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building web platforms, leading small teams, and advising early-stage projects. He started coding in high school and co-founded a web development company that shipped consumer apps (one with 300k+ downloads), later moving into senior consultancy and hiring roles at Reaktor before becoming self-employed. Alexander combines hands-on back-end expertise—contributing stability and robust error handling to the popular got HTTP library—with product-minded work in blockchain as an investor and builder. Known for thoughtful, empathetic collaboration, he assesses talent and shapes teams as deliberately as he writes code. Based in Amsterdam, he blends Computer Science and Economics training to balance technical depth with commercial judgment.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Utrecht University
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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171kreached
14answers
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
testing10
http10
nodejs10
error-handling9
http-client9
npm-package8
url-parsing8
unit-testing8
html6
rust6
vim6
design-patterns6
traits6
datetime6
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
sindresorhus/got
Dec 2016 - Dec 2021
🌐 Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:16 commits, 20 PRs, 1 push in 5 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to improving the stability and robustness of the `got` library. Their work focused on enhancing error handling, adding features like the ability to cancel in-progress requests, and improving the URL parsing. They also implemented new tests and refactored existing ones, demonstrating a strong understanding of testing methodologies.
apihttp-requestrequest-librarynode-jshttp-client
alextes/dotfiles
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:418 commits, 175 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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