Alexandra Ackerman
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandra Ackerman is a web developer, engineering manager, and educator with 11 years of experience building test-driven Ruby on Rails applications and React-driven frontends. Based in Virginia Beach, she enjoys diving up and down the stack—moving between production engineering, backend systems, and user-facing interfaces—to deliver high-quality, problem-solving software. As a team-builder and mentor, she pairs strong technical craft with soft skills to help individuals grow and teams perform. Her background includes immersive web development training from General Assembly and a BA in Culture and Media Studies (3.9 GPA) from The New School, reflecting a blend of technical rigor and thoughtful design perspective. She’s known for nerding out over both code quality and the human dynamics that make engineering sustainable and effective.
11 years of coding experience
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Culture and Media Studies, Minor in Journalism, 3.9 GPA, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Culture and Media Studies, Minor in Journalism, 3.9 GPA at The New School
Github Skills (57)
api-documentation10
api10
slate10
shopify9
design-tokens9
authentication9
markdown9
vscode-extension9
typescript9
actionmailer9
component-library9
figma-plugin9
rails-app9
react9
relay9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
newschool-webfundamentals/newschool-webfundamentals.github.io
Jan 2016 - Nov 2019
Syllabus and lessons for web fundamentals
Contributions:189 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
cssjavascriptfundamentalssyllabus
trilogy-group/contently-slate
Nov 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 2 months
apiopenapimarkdown
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