Alexandra Smith
Engineering Manager at Workday
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandra Smith is an engineering manager and backend platform engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable APIs and systems across startups and big tech, now leading teams at Workday. She blends hands-on architecture—designing partner-facing APIs and large-scale backend solutions—with a collaborative, product-aligned management style that prioritizes practical business outcomes. Her background includes platform work on Twitter’s DMs and Users services and front-end contributions to Workday’s Canvas design system, demonstrating cross-stack fluency from API design to accessible React components. Based in Boulder, she fosters a culture that’s both high-performing and enjoyable, and she’s known for pragmatic refactors that improve developer ergonomics and long-term system health.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (13)
ui-components10
typescript10
typescripts10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
storybook10
typescript-types10
react10
accessibilityservice9
accessibility9
acessibility9
css9
formik7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Workday/canvas-kit
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Development kits to implement UI following the Workday Canvas Design System (https://canvas.workday.com/). See our Component Storybook -
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 825 reviews, 184 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandra primarily implemented and enhanced React UI components within the `canvas-kit` repository, a Workday design system. Their work included adding a `CountBadge` component, expanding storybook examples, and improving the accessibility of existing UI elements, focusing heavily on the integration of design patterns and React best practices. They also contributed to refactoring existing components, ensuring they are using createComponent. They also created examples using Formik integration.
storybookdesign-systemworkday
alanbsmith/koine
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:35 commits, 46 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 months
reactui-componentdesign-systemcomponent-libraryui-components
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