Alexander Wolden
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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Wolden is a Technical Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience building and leading teams that deliver distributed, full-stack applications across finance and consumer platforms. Currently at Block after progressing from Senior Software Engineer there, he previously led platform engineering for Nike’s Digital Product Creation, bringing a strong systems-thinking approach to cross-team collaboration and operational excellence. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he blends hands-on coding with people leadership to drive scalable architectures and reliable delivery. A multidisciplinary thinker with a BS spanning psychology, philosophy, and organic chemistry, he leverages unusual cross-domain perspective to solve technical and organizational complexity. His GitHub persona—self-described as "Winging it"—hints at pragmatic experimentation and a willingness to iterate rapidly in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Psychology, Philosophy, Organic Chemistry, Bachelor of Science Psychology, Philosophy, Organic Chemistry at University of Wisconsin
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Github Skills (123)
lorawan10
home-assistant-integration10
health-check10
azure-functions10
sticky-session10
lora10
fault-tolerance10
serverless10
hystrix-dashboard10
eureka-js-client10
mesh10
lambda10
serverless-architectures10
cloud-services10
hystrix10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awolden/brakes
Apr 2016 - Jan 2021
Hystrix compliant Node.js Circuit Breaker Library
Contributions:21 releases, 1 review, 137 commits in 4 years 10 months
hystrixnodejscircuit-breakerhealth-checkcircuit-breaker-library
meshcore-dev/meshcore-ha
Mar 2025 - Jun 2026
Home Assistant integration for monitoring and controlling MeshCore radio networks
Contributions:28 releases, 7 reviews, 55 PRs in 1 year 3 months
home-assistant-integrationmonitoringhahomeassistanthomeassistant-integration
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