Spencer Alger
Software Engineer at Ramp
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarSpencer Alger is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable front-end and back-end systems, currently based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He spent a decade at Elastic contributing to Kibana and the Elastic UI Framework, where he improved CI reliability, refined UI components, and tightened type definitions for better developer ergonomics. His open-source work includes meaningful contributions to nock—adding response delays, JSON content-type fixes, and stream error proxying—demonstrating attention to both developer tooling and robust HTTP behavior. Recent roles span Metronome and Ramp, and he also runs a small creative venture, Cleanplate Studio, blending product-focused engineering with entrepreneurial initiative. Spencer favors practical improvements that prevent flaky tests and runtime surprises, a pattern seen across CI scripts, type work, and core library fixes. He combines a pragmatic, quality-driven engineering style with a knack for subtle infrastructure and developer-experience enhancements.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
938reputation
169kreached
26answers
10questions
kibana
top-5%
Github Skills (32)
javascript10
testing10
eui10
http10
typescript10
carbon-design-system10
system-design10
system10
stream10
sys10
typescript-types10
mocking10
elastic-ui10
nodejs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/kibana
Aug 2013 - Jan 2023
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:
Front-end & DevOps Engineer
Front-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1680 reviews, 9008 commits in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Spencer contributed to the Kibana project by adding a script to update VSCode configuration with proper excludes, and another to prevent async Promise constructor mistakes. They also focused on preventing failing suite tests from occurring and added issue links to them. Further improvements to the CI pipeline, including retrying calls to the ci-stats service slower and more reliable have been demonstrated.
elasticdashboardskibanaobservabilitywindow
elastic/eui
May 2017 - Sep 2022
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 12 commits, 17 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributed to the Elastic UI Framework (EUI) by implementing and refining UI components and type definitions. Their work involved adding and modifying type definitions for various components such as buttons, toasts, and form elements. Additionally, the user updated documentation and performed code maintenance tasks related to the project's build process, demonstrating a focus on ensuring code quality and maintainability.
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