Andrés Alvarado
Founding Engineer at Alien Giraffe
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrés Alvarado is a founding engineer and front-end-focused software professional with 13 years of experience building performant web platforms and platform-level integrations. He led critical checkout and authentication projects at Groupon—optimizing pages with Vanilla JS, Preact and Elm, driving up to 60% page-load improvements and integrating complex payment flows like 3DS2.0 and Apple Pay. Andrés blends product and platform sensibilities, having moved large services to AWS, migrated test and logging infrastructure, and architected Optimizely experiment tooling. Now based in Redwood City, he helps teams reduce data exposure through just-in-time, auditable data access at AlienGiraffe, reflecting a growing interest in security-conscious operational tooling. He prefers collaborative, high-skill teams and is actively seeking remote front-end roles where pragmatic engineering and continuous improvement meet.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Universidad Arturo Prat
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (143)
vim10
cson10
formatters10
kakoune10
rust10
text-editor10
react-bootstrap10
plugin10
language-server10
editor9
controlling9
lunarvim9
webapp9
language-server-protocol9
lua9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aotarola/esbuild-elm-template
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 review, 41 commits, 4 PRs in 20 days
aotarola/nix-config
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:86 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 4 months
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