Product Obsessed Software Engineer

I'm a developer in Los Angeles, California. I love making great software products that delights millions of users. When I'm not coding, I'm telling jokes at your local comedy club.

Email: l dot alexander 10 at gmail.com

Professional Work

Rhino

React Rails Sidekiq Javascript Redis Elixir

Discovered and fixed a bug that caused the business to lose $1 million in lifetime premium..

Built the “Pay Now” feature which enabled the business to collect over $1 million in delinquent premium.

Helped reduce Rhino's $2 million deficit by passing payment service fees to renters.

Aided in Stripe re-architecture to simplify payment processing for over 500,000 renters.

Fixed a security vulnerability in a critical webhook endpoint that received 70,000 requests per day.

Improved bulk property uploader service to decrease property and tenant onboarding time.

Implemented the Google Address API, which reduced claim adjustment time by 30%.

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Say Rhino

Nudiez

React Rails Sidekiq Javascript AWS GCP

Helped build and scale an NSFW/adult site that has generated over $30 million in revenue and counting.

NSFW: Don't click in a public library
Venue Seating Charts
Venue Seating Charts

Duffl

React Python Django AWS

Fixed authentication security vulnerabilities by migrating from token authentication to JWT authentication.

Scaled database servers to handle increased traffic.

Implemented application logging to surface and discover application errors.

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Ticketmaster Seating Charts

React GraphQL

Added seating charts to Ticketmaster Venue pages to increase Ticketmaster's seating chart SEO ranking

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Venue Seating Charts
TapMyBio

Ticketmaster De-Indexing

React Graphql Node

Created a service that de-indexed 190k thin content pages from Google to increase Ticketmaster's SEO ranking.

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Ticketmaster A/B Tests

Javascript

Built and updated AB tests to deeplink users into the iOS and Android Ticketmaster apps .

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Ticketmaster
Stubhub McCovey Cove

StubHub McCovey Cove

Knockout React CSS

McCovey Cove was a project built for StubHub to showcase the history and importance of the San Francisco Giant's baseball stadium.

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HighFive Workstyle Quiz

Knockout React CSS

The HighFive Workstyle Quiz is an interactive website created for HighFive to help identify your ideal workstyle.

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Kukua Corp
Kukua Corp

BrightRoll

Knockout Greensock CSS

BrightRoll is a project built for Yahoo's subsidary to demonstrate how a marketer's audience is like fine wine.

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Beyond the Beat

Greensock Javascript CSS

Beyond the Beat is as an interal project developed for Column Five Media to showcase Rosetta Thorpe aka the Mother of Rock n' Roll during Black History Month.

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Kukua Corp
Kukua Corp

Collab Creators Website

Sinatra jQuery Greensock CSS

Collab Creators is the official website for Collab

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Cyndx Finder

React Rails Neo4j Python NLP

Cyndx Finder is a search engine used by M&A analysts to find similar companies, concepets, and industries

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Kukua Corp
Kukua Corp

Collab DRM Website

Sinatra jQuery Greensock CSS HTML

Collab DRM is the official website for Collab's Digital Rights Management service.

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Collab Audio Library

jQuery Bootstrap AudioMicro API Rails

Collab Audio Library allows our social media partners at Collab to view and download royalty-free music/sounds.

Kukua Corp
Kukua Corp

Collab Documents

React Redux Rails ES6

Developed an internal feature which allows Collab's claims team to create and send contractual agreements to users of clips we license.

Collab Compilation Maker

React Rails ES6

Developed an internal tool for tracking YouTube video compilations created by Collab’s social media talent.

Kukua Corp

Open Source

Webpack

Javascript

Added file removal tracking in watch-run mode and show loaders used when module parsing fails.

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Webpack
Webpack

Parcel

Javascript

Add disabling of autoinstall globally

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Atom

Javascript

Added Fading of Tooltips on Keyboard Events

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Webpack
Webpack

React use-is-online

Javascript

Node JS wrapper for the Soundcloud SDK. Inspired by the libraries soundcloud-node

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Mastodon

React Rails ES6

Fixed an issue with retoot counts having incorrect data.

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Webpack

Electron OSX Sign

Javascript

Fixed an issue with setting app group values.

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Youtube-video-to-frames

Javascript

Download and convert a youtube video to pictures/frames.

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Webpack
Webpack

n-stats

Javascript

Pretty print a node package's download stats from the command line.

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Node Worldstar

Javascript

Download worldstarhiphop videos

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Webpack
Webpack

Node Mercury Parser

Javascript

A wrapper around the Mercury web parser API.

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n-lines

Javascript

Add any number of newlines to a string

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Webpack
Webpack

Read This

Javascript

Add any number of newlines to a string

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Socket NTP

Javascript

NTP Sync using Socket.io. Allows you to sync clients against a server by calculating the time offset.

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Webpack
Webpack

Node-Summary

Javascript

Summarizes text using a naive summarization algorithm.

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Node Imgur

Javascript

A node Imgur library for the Imgur API.

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Webpack
Webpack

Node Soundcloud

Javascript

Node JS wrapper for the Soundcloud SDK. Inspired by the libraries soundcloud-node

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