Alexander W
Software Engineer at Bloomington Tutors
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander W is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building web applications, developer tools, and open-source projects from Bloomington, Indiana. He has held roles from engineer to lead developer at companies including Indeed and NextGi and currently contributes to product engineering at Bloomington Tutors. A longtime creator of the UserFrosting PHP framework, he blends practical open-source stewardship with hands-on full-stack work—recently contributing documentation, UI fixes, and iOS keyboard bug fixes to the widely used Select2 project. His background spans applied research in manufacturing and complex systems, giving him a strong foundation in algorithmic problem solving and system design. Outside of code he’s an avid hiker who volunteers to improve local trails, reflecting a pragmatic, community-minded approach to both engineering and life.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Informatics (Complex Systems), Master of Science Informatics (Complex Systems) at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster of Science Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science Mechanical Engineering at University of Maryland
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
jquery10
documentation10
select210
front-end-development9
css8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
select2/select2
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Select2 is a jQuery based replacement for select boxes. It supports searching, remote data sets, and infinite scrolling of results.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 129 commits, 66 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to documentation updates, adding examples and clarifying tagging support within the Select2 library's documentation. They also implemented redirects for various pages, ensuring a smooth transition to the updated documentation structure. Furthermore, the user fixed code highlighting issues and addressed styling problems related to multi-select elements in the project. Finally, they also worked on fixing keyboard closing issues on iOS.
data-setsjqueryscrollingjstreejavascript
userfrosting/extend-user
Feb 2017 - Oct 2017
Example sprinkle for extending the User class to contain additional fields
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
laravelphpadditionalfieldsuserfrosting
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