Nichol Alexander
Senior Software Engineer at Shopify
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNichol Alexander is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building and modernizing full-stack Rails and JavaScript applications across startups, nonprofits, and fintech. She combines hands-on implementation—shipping features, refactors, and CI/CD improvements—with technical leadership, having steered legacy rewrites, DevOps ownership, and mentoring efforts as a lead engineer. Her recent roles include senior engineering at Betterment and Shopify, and she has a track record of rescuing undocumented codebases into maintainable, test-backed systems. An active open-source contributor in the Ruby GUI space, she added tested geometry and usability improvements to the Shoes4 project, reflecting attention to small UX details that improve developer ergonomics. Trained in dramatic writing, she brings a storyteller’s clarity to requirements and demos, turning complex business rules into practical, well-documented software. Equally comfortable writing elegant code or coordinating cross-functional stakeholders, she thrives on pragmatic craftsmanship with teams that do meaningful work.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The Dalton SchoolBA Dramatic Literature, BA Dramatic Literature at New York UniversityMFA Playwriting, MFA Playwriting at The New School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
testing10
shoes10
windows-gui10
ruby10
jruby9
cross-platform9
heroku6
javascript6
haml6
travis-ci6
pg6
asset-pipeline6
erb6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
shoes/shoes4
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Shoes 4 : the next version of Shoes
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nichol primarily contributed to the Shoes4 project, focusing on implementing and improving the star element within the Shoes GUI framework. Their work involved adding methods like `center_point` and `center_point=`, as well as writing tests for these functionalities. They also developed sample applications to demonstrate the usage of these methods and refactored code based on feedback and fixing rubocop errors, enhancing both the functionality and usability of the framework.
mac-osxwindowsswtnext-versionlinux
nicholalexander/basket
Feb 2023 - Dec 2023
A ruby basket for collecting objects to do something with later.
Contributions:9 reviews, 75 PRs, 130 pushes in 10 months
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