Michael Alexander
Senior Software Engineer at self
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Alexander is a Senior Software Engineer and U.S. Navy veteran with 11 years of experience building full-stack web applications and shipping production features across startups and scale-ups. Based in Asheville, NC, he currently contributes to Bill/Divvy after being part of Divvy through its acquisition, bringing expertise in Elixir, Ruby on Rails, front-end engineering, and payment integrations. He balances product-focused feature work with platform improvements—everything from routing and UI/UX fixes to Stripe environment handling and embedding educational resources for veteran-focused open source projects. Michael has a history of taking projects end-to-end, from Ionic mobile front-ends to backend integrations and chrome extension tooling, and he often steps into mentorship and debugging roles. His background in crash and salvage operations informs a disciplined, process-oriented approach to on-call incidents and urgent bug resolution. An active freelance contributor, he combines military-tested reliability with a pragmatic, user-centered engineering mindset.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (10)
html10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails9
rails9
css9
ux-design8
ui-design8
javascript5
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OperationCode/operationcode_old_site
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Our open source website. We're on a mission to help the military community learn software development, enter the tech industry, and code the future.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael made various changes to the website, including fixing routing issues, improving HTML code quality, and enhancing the layout. They focused on updating the online resources page by modifying existing content and adding new video embeds. Additionally, the user modified the donation form to correctly capture first and last names and adjusted Stripe keys for different environments. The user also addressed multiple UI/UX issues and fixed some issues.
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cenderin/operationcode
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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