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          Experience
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Senior Software Engineer, <em>The New York Times</em></span>
            <span class="timeline">2022 - present</span>
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          <h6 class="tech-stack">
            React, ProseMirror, TypeScript, Apollo, GraphQL, Go, WCAG/A11Y, Design Systems, Platforms, CI/CD, AWS, Docker
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          <p>
            As a part of a re-platforming effort of <em>The Times’</em> publication systems, help develop a flexible set of plug-and-play rich-text editing and publishing tools that work across the company’s ecosystem. 
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Senior Software Engineer, Newsela</span>
            <span class="timeline">2021 - 2022</span>
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          <h6 class="tech-stack">
            React, ProseMirror, Apollo, GraphQL, Node, Django, Python3, WCAG/A11Y, Kinesis, Sass, CSS-in-JS, CircleCI, Docker
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          <p>
            As a member of the CMS team, planned and executed technical projects to mature our bespoke content management system, Alexandria.
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          <p>
            Built expertise in ProseMirror, an industry-standard rich text-editing library, by implementing scopes of work and technical architecting of new custom features. This work included lots of fun stuff, like extending the ProseMirror source code, making refactoring decisions to generalize our implementation of the editor, and executing multi-sprint epics for business-critical feature work.
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            Developed team processes to aid collaboration, such as standing pair programming blocks and an on-call rotation during working hours.          </p>
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Software Engineer, Newsela</span>
            <span class="timeline">2018 - 2021</span>
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          <h6 class="tech-stack">
            React, Redux, GraphQL, Python3, Django, A/B Testing, Kinesis, Sass, CSS-in-JS, CircleCI, Docker
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          <p>
            Maintained and built product at <a href="https://newsela.com/" target="_blank">Newsela</a>, an instructional content platform that helps students read by delivering articles and comprehension assessments tailored to their individual reading levels.
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          <p>
            As a member of the CMS team, supported editors and writers by executing a rewrite of our digital publishing suite that prioritizes flexibility and evolution of our content offerings, better-supporting publishing workflows, and allowing for the addition of more dynamic types of content. Saw the project from a greenfield phase to full maturity, with a majority of content being produced in our new CMS.
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Developer, Carbon Five</span>
            <span class="timeline">2018</span>
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          <h6 class="tech-stack">
            Open source, React, Emotion.js, Python2, Django, Angular5, Sass, Bootstrap, CircleCI, Docker
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          <p>
            As a client-facing consultant, contributed Agile methodologies and custom full-stack software solutions for a variety of business needs.
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          <p>
            Executed a re-write to pure React and data styling with Emotion.js for <a href="https://github.com/Autodesk/hig" target="_blank">Autodesk's open-source design system.</a>
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          <p>
            Designed a point-of-sale system API which integrated complex business logic in order to provide a seamless, personalized in-store experience for a startup in the orthodontic aligner space. 
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Curriculum Consultant, Girls Who Code</span>
            <span class="timeline">2017 - 2018</span>
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          <h6 class="tech-stack">
            HTML5, CSS3, Javascript
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            Set learning objectives and curriculum structure for Girls Who Code's <a href="https://girlswhocode.com/campus/" target="_blank">Campus Web Development program</a>, a national tuition-based summer course serving hundreds of US students. Determined best tools and practices for course curriculum and wrote hands-on tutorials for students on concepts such as HTML/CSS, Flexbox, JavaScript events, APIs, debugging, and project planning.
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Developer, Big Wheel Brigade</span>
            <span class="timeline">2016 - 2017</span>
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          <h6 class="tech-stack">
            Ruby on Rails, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, Python
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          <p>
            Developed and maintained a Rails application with more than 70k active users for a long-standing client, <a href="http://catalogchoice.org" target="_blank">Catalog Choice.</a>
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          <p>
            Mentored 46 new developers as part of the company's training program, Omaha Code School, reviewing and supervising their work in Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Built internal scripts and applications in Node.js and Ruby to streamline school operations. Led course development of and instructed the school's part-time Web Development 101 program.
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            Represented the company on issues of empathy, diversity, and inclusivity in tech.
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Teaching Assistant, Omaha Code School</span>
            <span class="timeline">2015</span>
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          <h6 class="tech-stack">
            HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, WordPress, PHP
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            Served as a Teaching Assistant for OCS: Highlander -- a coding camp for eleven high-school students from underserved districts that focused on front-end development in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery, and WordPress/PHP. Mentored campers during their group capstone projects, which were judged for creativity, technical achievement, and community benefit by local tech companies.
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          Education
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>The Graduate Center, City University of New York</span>
            <span class="timeline">2024 - present</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            M.A. Candidate, Digital Humanities ● 4.0 GPA
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            Building technical projects with impact in the humanities and academia, using open source and specialized tools like Wax, Dédalo, and Tableau.
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Omaha Code School</span>
            <span class="timeline">Spring 2015</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Accelerated Certificate Program
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          <p class="responsibilities">
            Full-stack development training in SQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, AJAX, and version control with git/Github. Additional experience with: MongoDB, Agile development, API integration, third-party authentication, and data visualization (Mapbox, Chartkick).
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Nebraska Wesleyan University</span>
            <span class="timeline">2007 - 2012</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            B.A., Political Science & Religion
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            Minors: Mathematics and Gender Studies.
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            Semester of research in Tunis with the School for International Training, Spring 2011.<br>
            Communications Intern for the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, Fall 2011.
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          Community
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            <span>Program Committee Member, RubyConf</span>
            <span class="timeline">2020</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Events, Technical Speaking
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          <p>
            TK
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Mentor, Out in Tech U</span>
            <span class="timeline">2020</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Curriculum Building, Diversity & Inclusion, Mentorship
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          <p>
            TK
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Organizer, Write/Speak/Code Conference</span>
            <span class="timeline">2018 - 2020</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Events, Diversity & Inclusion, Mentorship, Open Source, Technical Speaking
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            Helped with speaker selection, attendee support, sponsorship, and conference logistics for the 2018 Write/Speak/Code conference, a national event for 300+ software engineers.
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            Invited by board members to return as an organizer for the 2019 conference.
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Volunteer, RailsBridge NYC</span>
            <span class="timeline">2018 - 2020</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Diversity & Inclusion, Tech Education
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            Support students and answer questions during single-day workshops designed to introduce more women to Ruby on Rails development, free of cost.
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Grievance Committee Member, Mystery Code Society</span>
            <span class="timeline">2018 - present</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Codes of Conduct, Diversity & Inclusion, Tech Education
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          <p>
            Address code of conduct violations for Mystery Code Society, an Omaha-based non-profit providing rigorous and free coding curriculum for women, femmes, and non-men.
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Mentor, Code2040</span>
            <span class="timeline">2018</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Diversity & Inclusion, Mentorship
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            Provided support for the Code2040 Fellow program, including weekly meetings with a dedicated collegiate mentee and career coaching for members of the NYC cohort. 
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          <h3 class="resume-section-role-title">
            <span>Instructor & Organizer, Omaha Girls Who Code</span>
            <span class="timeline">2016 - 2017</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Diversity & Inclusion, Mentorship, Tech Education 
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            Instructed multiple 6th- through 8th-grade cohorts in programming, web development, and collaborative problem-solving. The focus of the curriculum includes programming fundamentals and a self-designed project with community impact.
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            Served as an organizer for the Omaha Girls Who Code Coalition, an umbrella network for the growing number of organization chapters in the Omaha area.
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            <span>Co-Founder & Organizer, Omaha Emerging Developers</span>
            <span class="timeline">2016 - 2017</span>
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          <h6 class="expertise-area">
            Events, Mentorship, Technical Speaking 
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            Organized and implemented monthly events for the group of over 200 new and mid-level developers in which members could network, share their unique skills, and practice delivering technical talks to peers.
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          References
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            <span>Dr. Jackie Blizzard</span>
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              <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackieblizzard/" target="_blank"><span class="icon icon-linkedin"></span></a></li>
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            STEM Education Expert, Former Supervisor
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            <span>Sumeet Jain</span>
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              <li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/sumeetjain" target="_blank"><span class="icon icon-twitter"></span></a></li>
              <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumeetjain/" target="_blank"><span class="icon icon-linkedin"></span></a></li>
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            Development Director, Mentor, Former Supervisor
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          <p class="recommendation">
            Alex is among the best people I’ve ever worked with. In the three years that we worked together, Alex led development on a number of software projects, managed groups of other developers, and directed community-building efforts. She is unwaveringly dedicated to performing at the highest level and organizes her days meticulously to keep productive even when under pressure.
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            <span>Rahul Gupta</span>
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              <li><a href="http://www.twitter.com/hul" target="_blank"><span class="icon icon-twitter"></span></a></li>
              <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahulgupta/" target="_blank"><span class="icon icon-linkedin"></span></a></li>
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            Engineering Manager, Former Supervisor
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          <p class="recommendation">
            As a full-stack web developer on my team at Big Wheel Brigade I could rely on Alexandra to solve any development challenge she was faced with. Alex is an excellent communicator and incisive thinker -- invaluable assets in a software developer. Given the opportunity, I'd happily work with her again.
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