Ken Alger
Senior Manager, Developer Advocate
Silverton, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKen Alger is an independent software architect and lead developer with 11+ years designing developer-facing platforms, APIs, and large-scale learning experiences. He blends product, education, and engineering expertise—having led curriculum strategy for MongoDB University (1.5M+ learners) and driven DevEx initiatives at Heroku and Cisco. Recently he’s focused on bridging physical and digital data with AI-assisted validation, search across messy datasets, and developer tooling that makes real-world data more usable. Comfortable from schema design through deployment and governance, he brings hands-on experience building production platforms (MongoDB, MCP, Heroku) and running the end-to-end systems that support them. Outside of software he’s applied project management and customer-facing skills from running a construction business and community organizations, which informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics at California State University, ChicoCulinary Arts/Chef Training, Culinary Arts/Chef Training at Western Culinary InstituteAccounting, Accounting at Chemeketa Community CollegeComputer Programming, Computer Programming at Treehouse Island
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Github Skills (89)
trend10
collections10
explore10
mongoose9
python-socket9
socket9
gevent9
long-polling9
kotlin9
webinar9
odm9
java9
eventlet9
mongodb-stitch9
mongo-java-driver9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
kenwalger/wifimanager
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:71 commits, 3 PRs, 64 pushes in 6 months
in-progresswork-in-progress
kenwalger/javahangman
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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