Glenn Alexander
Software Engineer at Polycade
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGlenn Alexander is a full-stack software engineer based in Cleveland with nine years of hands-on experience building Node.js and React applications, currently shipping product at Polycade. He brings practical startup experience—from production management to engineering—giving him a strong operational sense for deployability and reliability in addition to feature development. His background includes building developer tooling like a smart Express proxy that captures middleware state for debugging, and several real-time and responsive open-source projects that leverage WebSockets and canvas resizing techniques. With formal training from Codesmith and a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Northwestern, he combines rigorous problem-solving with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues rely on him to bridge front-end UX concerns and resilient back-end patterns while keeping systems easy to observe and maintain.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at CodesmithBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Philosophy at Northwestern University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
expressjs8
nodejs6
logging4
debugging3
Github contributions (5)
gcz23/ExpressiveJS
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:65 pushes in 1 month
end-to-endserver-trackingloggingtrackingdebugging
venogram/ExpressiveJS
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:164 commits, 109 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 month
end-to-endexpressjsexpresstrackingroute-server
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