Alexander Vantol
Senior Software Architect at University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Vantol is a Senior Software Architect with 11 years of experience designing and delivering data-intensive research systems, currently enabling access to 1.7 million patient records and 17 PB of research data at the University of Chicago. He leads full lifecycle development and production deployments of open-source frameworks used by major initiatives like the NCI Cancer Research Data Commons, while driving performance-focused reengineering of ingestion pipelines. A hands-on engineer and mentor, he pairs strong backend skills—exemplified by implementing Google OAuth and session management in Flask for Real Python materials—with Agile leadership to guide teams and collaborate with external sponsors. Known for clean, well-structured code and an analytical approach to complex problems, he brings academic rigor from a computer engineering degree (3.90 GPA) to pragmatic, production-scale solutions.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering (Major), Computer Science (Minor), 3.90, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering (Major), Computer Science (Minor), 3.90 at Kettering University
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Github Skills (15)
user-authentication10
authentication10
sqlite10
python10
oauth10
flask-ask10
flask10
http-request9
web-development9
mailto6
jira6
swing6
jira-rest-api6
uri6
java6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
realpython/materials
May 2019 - May 2019
Bonus materials, exercises, and example projects for our Python tutorials
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on implementing user authentication and login functionality using Google OAuth within a Flask application. They developed the necessary backend logic, including integrating with Google APIs, managing user sessions, and storing user data in a SQLite database. The contributions also included UI updates, improving the overall user experience and code formatting with `black`.
python
Avantol13/woo-sy-app
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
|||||| WooCommerce + Etsy = woo-sy |||||| woo-sy + Web App = woo-sy-app ||||||
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 3 months
woocommerce
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