Alexander White
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlexander White is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, user-focused systems across cloud-native, microservices, and front-end stacks. Currently at Atlassian, he has led cross-functional initiatives such as Confluence dark mode and extensibility for Marketplace developers while driving test-suite modernizations to reduce flakiness and boost developer velocity. He co-owns a software consultancy where he architected Spring Boot microservices, Helm/Kubernetes deployments on GCP, and CI/CD pipelines—bridging product, UX, and business needs for high-impact websites. Known for pragmatic engineering discipline, he coaches teams toward balanced testing and rapid, high-quality delivery and has repeatedly taken tech-lead roles across domains from finance to agriculture and enterprise tools. Based in St. Louis, he combines hands-on implementation with stakeholder-facing leadership and a preference for relaxed, collaborative teams that value craftsmanship and camaraderie.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Spanish
Stackoverflow
802reputation
60kreached
11answers
4questions
Github Skills (154)
javascript10
jquery10
html10
typescript10
angularjs10
health10
bootstrap10
css10
bootstrap-components10
webpack10
selectize10
react-components9
select29
grails9
linux9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
abobwhite/jenkins-docker
Nov 2018 - Sep 2024
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
TeamDaugherty/rest-resources
Feb 2019 - Dec 2021
A framework agnostic pattern for integrating with RESTful resources with a few simple decorators on your JavaScript resource classes.
Contributions:19 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
decoratorsjavascriptrestrestful
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.