Resumé

Alex Barber

She/Her

Full-stack software developer with 12 years of experience. Looking for remote senior or staff software engineering roles.

Sandy, Utah, USA (moving to Seattle, Washington, USA)
alex@dangerzone.games

Skills

High proficiency with:

  • Rust
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Go
  • Kotlin
  • PHP
  • WordPress
  • PostgreSQL
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • Docker

Previous experience with:

  • Java
  • C++
  • Dart
  • Flutter
  • Elixir
  • Python
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Splunk
  • MySQL

Links

Examples of my work:

More about me:

Senior Software Engineer at Nav

November 2018 to July 2026 (7+ years)
Remote

  • Designed, documented, and implemented a token-based contact verification service to allow our other services to verify users and prevent fraud, written in Go and gRPC
  • Helped create several services for a B2B marketplace for businesses to offer each other trade credit lines, including creating the initial CMS and training other engineers on it
  • Led the project and did the majority of the implementation of a redesigned profile settings page
  • Helped design and create the core service responsible for sending all email, SMS, push, and in-site notifications
  • Conducted dozens of technical and pairing interviews for engineering team applicants up to the senior staff level and trained other engineers in this process
  • Was trained to participate in the hiring board process for making hiring decisions
  • Wrote the SalesForce Marketing Cloud integration for our Go services, which involved writing an entire client library for the API from scratch
  • Created numerous React components, hooks, and other utilities in our TypeScript libraries that are used throughout our frontend to provide a uniform design system and keep behavior consistent
  • Created and maintained the React component library that provided all of our credit card and loan marketplace-related components, hooks, etc.
  • Created and maintained a WordPress plugin on top of the Gutenberg block editor that added dozens of custom blocks to allow our marketing team to build pages according to the standard design guide
  • Maintained, was on-call for, and made numerous improvements to a PHP/WordPress-based system for operating specialized partner marketplaces that was responsible for a very substantial portion of our revenue for many years
  • Maintained our WordPress site, including maintaining and making changes and fixes to our custom theme, frequently adding new features as needed, and being on-call for any outages or issues.
  • Helped implement 3 major redesigns of our main marketing website over the years

Founder of Danger Interactive

February 2018 to Present
Self-Employed

  • Developed and released an android app: HyperTrace (open source)
  • Developed an open source linear algebra library for game engines called Skeid
  • Began work on an open source game engine called TimberWolf, built on an ECS called Wyrd
  • Participated in the Ludum Dare game jam 3 times: LD38, LD39, and LD40

Sysadmin & PHP Developer at National Energy Foundation

May 2014 to February 2018 (about 4 years)
On-Site: Murray, Utah, USA

  • Created and maintained numerous WordPress themes and plugins
  • Wrote a custom survey software in PHP
  • Wrote a custom asset management software in PHP
  • Built, configured, and wrote custom code for in-office servers for hosting OpenVPN, continuous website backups, and potential for failover if needed
  • Wrote custom utilities for managing and maintaining compliance in our email marketing processes
  • Created dozens of custom marketing email templates from scratch
  • Created custom interactive web apps to publish our annual reports each year