Tony Alves
Co-Founder at Scholarly Publishing Solutions
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Alves is a seasoned scholarly publishing leader and co-founder with over three decades of experience designing products, workflows, and software for scientific journals, textbooks, and continuing medical education. He blends systems and product thinking with hands-on development experience—contributing full-stack fixes and modernizations to open-source projects like decap-cms—to modernize editorial and publishing platforms. Tony has led product organizations and cross-functional teams at HighWire and Aries Systems, driving SaaS platform strategy, interoperability, and research-integrity tooling across international clients. He is known for building industry alliances, promoting standards, and delivering mission-critical publishing services that balance editorial realities with automation. Based in Huntington Beach, CA, he pairs editorial domain expertise with practical AI and platform integration skills to help publishers increase efficiency and trust without losing scholarly values. An early adopter of multimedia CME and online editorial workflows, he brings a rare combination of publishing instincts and technical execution.
12 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at Johnson & Wales UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), English, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (15)
git10
javascript10
cms10
netlify-cms10
front-end-development10
back-end-development10
webpacker10
react10
webpack10
backend9
configuration-management9
npm-package8
umd7
cicd7
esmodules7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
decaporg/decap-cms
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
A Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 26 commits, 45 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the Netlify CMS project by modifying both frontend and backend code. They addressed issues such as removing IE11 support and fixing entry saved messages, impacting the user experience. The user also implemented new features, like allowing configuration file loading to be skipped and refactoring the build output to be compatible with UMD and ESM. They updated various packages to ensure compatibility with registerBackend and refine export implementations.
cmsreactstatic-sitenetlify-cmsnpm-package
talves/netlify-cra-env-vars
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
Simple example of Environment Variables in a Create React App on Netlify
Contributions:10 commits, 22 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years
environment-variablesreactcreate-reactcreate-react-anetlify
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