Working as a software engineer in San Francisco.
Software Engineer @ From April 2014 to Present (1 year 9 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Developing applications for a website with more than 20 million monthly active users
* Core contributor to a messaging platform which facilitates over thirty million messages per day
* Wrote a real time alerts system which handles many thousand cache writes per second
* Expert with Vim, Git, Jenkins, and various unix tools that make for a well rounded engineer
* Developed leadership experience by leading an agile “Scrum” team of peers, and mentoring interns
* Organized and ran the engineering internship program, interviewing and recruiting candidates from top universities
* Implemented continuous integration testing frameworks for JavaScript and iOS projects
* Assuming responsibilities in an off hours “developer on call” rotation
* Deploying code multiple times per day to millions of active users From June 2011 to April 2014 (2 years 11 months) Web Developer & IT Manager @ Operations work for the IT department at my university. Also designed and developed a departmental website. From July 2009 to May 2011 (1 year 11 months) Web Design & Development Intern @ Web design & development. From December 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 1 month)
B.A., Mass Communication; Computer Science - Website and Game Technology @ Miami University From 2007 to 2011 The University of Edinburgh Alex Hancock is skilled in: JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, Ruby on Rails, Agile Methodologies, PHP, Node.js, jQuery, Git, Mobile Applications, User Experience, User Interface Design, Objective-C, Software Engineering, Front-end
Websites:
http://alexhancock.com