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Alexander Glaze

Minneapolis

Summary

Full-stack software engineer with 7 years of experience building scalable web applications, leading frontend architecture initiatives, and driving performance improvements across legacy and modern systems. Proven ability to deliver impactful features in React and Rails environments while championing accessibility, frontend conventions, and cross-functional collaboration.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer II

Handshake
02.2023 - Current
  • Led frontend architecture efforts for legacy-to-modern React transitions, improving code maintainability and performance
  • Built scalable Rails endpoints supporting critical workflows in education data tracking
  • Championed accessibility standards across the app and co-led the internal Frontend Guild
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with product, design, and data to launch features for student outcomes tracking
  • Led development of the Employer Activity Log feature, enabling schools to track employer engagement across 12+ domain models; backfilled hundreds of millions of historical records and now stream ~1.5 million new activity writes daily to Firestore, surfaced via a React + React Router frontend

Software Engineer

Handshake
01.2020 - 02.2023

Software Engineer

Survata
09.2019 - Current
  • Core member of Agile squad tasked with developing features and new platforms for Survata
  • Develop features/components using React
  • Write unit tests for components using Jest
  • Configure Grails Rest API endpoints to deliver formatted data to the frontend
  • Write unit tests for controllers using Spock
  • Core member of a small team which developed and launched a new client facing dashboard (React.js, Redux. Redux-Saga, Grails) that allows clients the ability to view/track the Brand Lift that resulted from their Ad Campaign.

Product Support Engineer

Survata
09.2018 - 09.2019
  • One-man team handling QA, bug triaging, code fixes, and development of software features on our web platform
  • First line of defense for bug fixes - Manage a support slack channel to assist with debugging issues / bug triage
  • Write, distribute, and quality check MySQL queries for ad-op team
  • Developed admin only features for our survey dashboard platform (Angularjs FE and Grails BE) that allowed my colleagues to extremely expedite their workflow by giving them UI access to features that were previously only available on the backend.
  • Updated our Android SDK to align with current industry best practices
  • Publisher integrations of Survata's Surveywall product
  • Migrated our VPAID infrastructure to AWS Lambda
  • Write unit tests while developing features/components for frontend (Jest) and backend (Spock)

Software Engineering Intern

Alpha
  • Core team member on a stealth mode investment platform that allows investors to directly
  • Drafted, maintained and optimized an API to allow founders and admins to onboard customers and monitor app activity
  • Designed and architected an Express server with Node.js that makes use of a PostgreSQL database, Passport.js and Heroku to expose our application to verified and authenticated users
  • Implemented various Redux connected React components to assist my team in expanding our web service
  • Push code to production weekly, participate in code reviews, actively working on moving from private beta to live public launch

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English

Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
06.2015

Skills

  • React
  • Typescript
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Elasticsearch
  • Knockout
  • Html5
  • CSS3
  • JQuery
  • Redux
  • AngularJS
  • React Native
  • ReduxSaga
  • ES6
  • Nodejs
  • Expressjs
  • SQL
  • MongoDB
  • Grails
  • Spring Boot
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Webpack
  • Git
  • Puppeteer
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Jira
  • Mocha
  • Chai
  • Enzyme
  • Spock
  • Jest

Coursework

  • Programming Methodology
  • Introduction to Statistical Methods
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Object Oriented Programming (Java)
  • Web Application Development
  • Web Performance

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Limited Working

Timeline

Software Engineer II

Handshake
02.2023 - Current

Software Engineer

Handshake
01.2020 - 02.2023

Software Engineer

Survata
09.2019 - Current

Product Support Engineer

Survata
09.2018 - 09.2019

Software Engineering Intern

Alpha

Bachelor of Arts - English

Stanford University

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