Ivy Alexander
Director Of Engineering at Peatix
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolIvy Alexander is a Director of Engineering based in Tokyo with 10+ years building and leading global platform, infrastructure and product teams across Peatix, GitHub and Canonical. She blends hands-on full-stack engineering experience—contributing to GitHub’s docs platform and QA/build tooling—with strategic leadership of cross-functional teams shipping high-priority features and platform improvements. At Peatix she focuses on AI enablement and empowering developers with emerging tools, while previously scaling GitHub’s enterprise support and documentation orgs through process and people development. Her background in Ubuntu Server and OpenStack deployments gives her deep operational instincts for cloud and on-prem systems, useful for both developer experience and reliability work. She has a track record of mentoring engineers and authors, and of building inclusive communities—having grown GitHub’s Adacats ERG into a 200+ member professional development network. Colleagues know her as a "professional Linux hyper dork" who pairs technical depth with pragmatic management.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, Associate’s Degree at University of Westminster
English, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
doc10
github-ci10
nodejs10
javascript10
githubaction-workflow10
testing10
cicd9
react9
yaml9
automated-build8
documentation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
github/docs
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
The open-source repo for docs.github.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ivy appears to be involved in various aspects of the GitHub documentation platform, contributing across both frontend and backend. They made updates to testing scripts, including QA tests for the search functionality and internationalization tests. They also worked on build and release scripts, and modified components for the documentation site. The user demonstrated a strong grasp of frontend and backend technologies.
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ivyharriet/ivyharriet
Sep 2021 - Jan 2025
my README!
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
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