Alexis Hushbeck
Senoir Frontend Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolAlexis Hushbeck is a senior frontend engineer with 13 years of experience building user-focused, privacy-conscious web applications and developer tools. Currently at DuckDuckGo after leading frontend engineering at Rula, Alexis has a track record of architecting core UI libraries, driving multi-quarter cross-team initiatives, and setting accessibility and contribution standards. Their background spans education and healthcare tech at Khan Academy and Rula, plus product and privacy-focused work at Blink UX and Adobe, giving them a strong mix of reliability, security, and UX sensibility. Alexis is known for organizing learning programs and embedding ethical, equity-minded practices into engineering workflows. Comfortable across frontend architecture and site reliability concerns, they thrive in unfamiliar problems and translate complex requirements into maintainable, privacy-first solutions. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, Alexis also brings entrepreneurial experience founding a plugin business and cultivating developer communities.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics at University of Washington
Stackoverflow
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186answers
26questions
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Github Skills (95)
error-reporting10
postgresql10
testing10
raygun10
french10
sqlite10
oracle-db10
microsoft-sql-server10
nodejs10
unit-testing10
duckduckgo9
javascript9
jquery9
sql9
webapp9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BlinkUX/sequelize-mock
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
A simple mock interface specifically for testing code relying on Sequelize models
Contributions:1 release, 153 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year 3 months
testingmock-modelssequelize-modelssequelizeunit-testing
BlinkUX/barkmark
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:120 commits, 18 PRs, 22 pushes in 29 days
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