Alexi Garrow
Staff Software Engineer at Benepass
Old Toronto, Ontario, Greece
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Top SchoolAlexi Garrow is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building secure, scalable web applications and infrastructure, currently leading engineering at Benepass. He progressed through roles at Wealthsimple and HomeStars, blending application security, backend engineering, and senior individual contributor leadership. Alexi’s early InfoSec work at Dow Jones—where he built a Django tool to surface CMS vulnerabilities—reflects a recurring focus on secure-by-design systems. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs practical product delivery with a security-minded approach to engineering trade-offs. Based in Old Toronto with academic roots from McGill in computer science, economics and political science, he brings interdisciplinary thinking to complex technical problems. He is selective about outreach and explicitly does not engage with vendors or recruiters.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts and Science Computer Science Economics Political Science, Bachelor of Arts and Science Computer Science Economics Political Science at McGill University
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Github Skills (71)
python10
identity10
authentication10
django10
data-journalism10
api10
rest10
authorization10
oauth2-provider10
rollbar10
scraper10
oauth10
zendesk-api9
transformation9
uncaught-exceptions9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jpmckinney/multi_mail
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Ruby gem to easily switch between email APIs
Contributions:52 commits in 1 month
e-mailruby
AGarrow/tooling
Sep 2019 - Apr 2026
convenience tools for software development
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 years 8 months
convenience
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