Spenser Jones
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Alpaca
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSpenser Jones is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead with 15 years of experience building resilient web applications, microservices, and SRE practices across Node.js, C#, and React/TypeScript. He blends hands-on development with architecture and operational ownership, having migrated legacy systems to Azure, implemented CI/CD and testing strategies, and led teams to higher productivity. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and infrastructure, he’s shipped high-availability solutions and coached teams through technical and process improvements. An active open-source contributor, he has improved maintainability and UX in community projects—from PHP CMS fixes to feature and refactor work on popular games and experimental apps. Based in Calgary, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for mentoring and surfacing product value through technical choices.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ambrose UniversityAthabasca University
English
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Github Skills (27)
git10
debug10
cms10
javascript10
gameplay10
mysql10
typescript10
software-quality10
videogames10
php10
typescript-types10
refactoring10
web-development10
typescripts10
game-development10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanything
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
The project where anything goes, as long as the code allows it
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 69 PRs, 373 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Spenser primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and adding features to the application. They integrated a voting system, adding a new page and links for users to view and interact with the system. The user implemented the display of votes, and added visualizations based on authors' contributions to the project. They also made a number of front end improvements, including fixing themes and adding a nice color scheme to the committer graph.
node-jsnodejslong
anchorcms/anchor-cms
May 2011 - May 2011
A lightweight blog CMS for PHP
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Spenser primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the Anchor CMS blog CMS for PHP. Their contributions include resolving issues related to undefined variables during installation and incorrect URL path settings. The user also added system checks and implemented necessary fixes to ensure that the application could write to configuration and upload directories, and added login/logout functionality. Additionally, they fixed several warnings and performed minor tweaks to path settings and the user information functionality.
cmscms-blogphpcontaophp8
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