Alex Patterson

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Developer Advocate @ FusionAuth
Alex Patterson's Location
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area, United States, United States
About Alex Patterson

Passionate about Web Development. Google Developer Expert in Firebase and AWS Community builder in Amplify. Extensive experience in information technology leadership, driving implementation around strategic goals, and inspiring buy-in amongst stakeholders. Successful in approach to implement change management and continuous improvement. Passionate about coaching to achieve team engagement and service excellence. Specialties: JavaScript, Firebase, Firestore, Angular, React, Next.js APIs, Google Cloud, AWS Amplify, SAP ABAP

Alex Patterson's Current Company Details
FusionAuth

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Developer Advocate
Alex Patterson Work Experience Details
  • Fusionauth
    Developer Relations Engineer
    Fusionauth Jul 2023 - Present
    Broomfield, Colorado, Us
    Repository Management: Lead maintenance of FusionAuth's GitHub repositories, quickstarts, and SDKs in TypeScript, JavaScript, and other languages, ensuring code quality and compatibility.Community Engagement: Build relationships with the developer community to drive adoption and foster collaboration.Technical Content Creation: Develop educational resources, blogs, and video content for YouTube and social media, focusing on SEO and developer enablement.Feedback Loop: Oversee GitHub issues, facilitating communication between developers and the team, providing insights for product improvements.Advocacy: Represent developer needs to enhance their experience and communication. Spoke at multiple events and podcasts promoting both the product and developers general knowledge around authenticationWebsite Management:** Update Astro-based site, including creating components, managing remote code implementations, and converting markdown/MDX.
  • Codingcat.Dev
    Founder
    Codingcat.Dev Jun 2017 - Present
    CodingCatDev is an Open Source Learning Management platform built on top of Next.js, Sanity.io, Cloudinary and Firebase.CommunityA community where you can get questions answered among colleagues and allow for a central place to reference web development tools.LearningOur feeling is that people learn in multiple ways. Offering both written and visual learning helps aid in the effort. We provide free courses, tutorials, podcasts and blogs.
  • Appwrite
    Senior Developer Advocate
    Appwrite Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Writing code, educating developers, building relationships with companies, event organizers, and developers, and fostering Appwrite's Open Source community.Generating social media and branding using Figma, Jitter, and Adobe Premiere. Adding brand-specific targeted traffic using tools like Brand24, Hubspot and Orbit as guidelines to inform KPI decisions.Creating video-based educational courses utilizing Screenflow, Adobe After Effects, and Adobe Premiere. Writing example repositories in a full-stack environment using the latest in Web technologies. Frontend developments written in Next.js, Svelte, and Astro, utilizing both JavaScript and TypeScript. Writing serverless cloud functions in Node.js to include Authentication, Database, and API endpoint access to frontend code bases.Maintaining several public GitHub repositories for company demo projects to keep up with the latest SDK deliveries.
  • Builder.Io
    Developer Advocate
    Builder.Io Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Representing developer's interests in and around Builder.io. Helping developers use tools to be more successful. Creation of technical video tutorials, documentation and awareness. Driving developer adoption of open-source software within the web development ecosystem. Including Qwik, Partytown and Mitosis.
  • Open Systems Technologies, Inc.
    Cloud Architect
    Open Systems Technologies, Inc. Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
    Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us
    Providing technical direction and leadership for the design and implementation of client solutions. Guiding others to find their strengths and opportunities for improvement through meaningful feedback and coaching.• Create Blueprint Internally based on 5 Pillars of Well-Architected Framework• Team Lead for Multi-Billion Dollar customer product• Design Architecture for AWS Amplify based solution. Including a microservice based architecture that is highly scalable.
  • Haworth
    Solution Architect Ii
    Haworth Jan 2016 - Sep 2019
    Holland, Mi, 49423, Us
    Capturing the current landscape of the enterprise to make better decisions on both technology and application decisions. Creating policies and standards that help drive the long term vision of the company forward, while making the company more efficient and inherently more cost effective. Creating spot solutions and prototypes to provide examples for architecture decisions. Providing roadmaps for the enterprise to follow. Working with vendors and internal teams to create cost analysis projections for enterprise solutions. Research and create the value proposition for enterprise products and purchases. Reporting to the CIO to help make better decisions within our global landscape.Lead implementation of Adobe AEM, Adobe Analytics and Adobe Campaign. Creating a CI/CD deployment environment from local to hosted AMS cloud Solutions. Working between the digital transformation and Global Information Services team to implement and convert our existing CMS platform.Work with several internal backend systems and external facing applications to create a strategy in the bimodal IT landscape. This includes Telerik Sitefinity, Telerik KendoUI, salesforce.com (BMC RemdyForce), and SAP. Creating a cohesive environment with enterprise leading applications through the latest in API technologies.
  • Haworth
    Sr. Developer
    Haworth Mar 2013 - Dec 2016
    Holland, Mi, 49423, Us
    Apply system-wide analysis and design techniques to complex computer systems components or projects to produce innovative solutions for variety of problems. Gathers information from users to define work problems and plan projects accordingly, enabling analysts and programmers to develop required systems, providing direction for project and to project team.Main Projects:Design Developer/Technical Team on creation of in-house .Net Web Application for production floor operations. Main feature is the operational execution sequence per plant/work center, a visual display of executional operations in a given bucket of time. SAP Operations included: confirmations/mass confirmations(CO11N), quality notifications(QM01), Material Pick(MB1B), and update and extraction of several production order related activities (CO02).Architecture built on ASP.Net MVC 5 Razor. Languages included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, and ABAP. Data exchange includes JSON, SAP .Net Connector (RFC), and Web Services using XML. The main front end toolkit that we use is Telerik KendoUI.
  • Grand Valley State University
    Adjunct Professor
    Grand Valley State University Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
    Allendale, Mi, Us
    MGT475 - Customized ERP SolutionsSAP ABAP, generalized programming concepts.http://catalog.gvsu.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=38&coid=54613
  • Perrigo
    Business Analyst
    Perrigo Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
    Dublin, County Dublin, Ie
    Creation of web and mobile apps using SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence. Consuming Universe or Bex Query as a data source, then transforming this into intelligent mobile representations.Development of RESTful web services written in ABAP and provide JSON as a response. Consume this web service using JQuery and AJAX providing a formatted HTML web page. Creating an Android/Java based application that makes this same REST call and provides functionality within standard Android Views.Business Analyst for SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Primary focus is Document Management (DMS). Also supporting material management and quality management. Supporting business needs through analysis, design, configuration and creation of programs. Supporting PP with management of Recipe Groups/Recipes along with Routing Groups/Routings for Bill of Material support and tracking.
  • Haworth
    Sr. Systems Analyst
    Haworth May 2011 - Feb 2012
    Holland, Mi, 49423, Us
    Performance tuning and optimization, including coding standards, database tuning, design re-engineering. Tools used during this activity included ABAP tracing and database activity through ST12Lead program/designer for creation of performance metering program. This includes gathering time for all Sales Order uploads based on criteria driven from ST12 traces.Making recommendations to the CIO and other leaders of the organization to change our strategy and design where necessary. Providing feedback to our hosting providers on where we can improve our hardware design and infrastructure.Lead program/designer for creation of FedEx web service. The service will pull all information (including weight and destination) and create a parcel shipment. This will allow for the removal of several FedEx Consoles.Designing a solution to deliver database results through a generic web service and consume them on an Android based device using SOAP (ksoap2).
  • Haworth
    Systems Analyst
    Haworth Sep 2009 - May 2011
    Holland, Mi, 49423, Us
    Lead designer/developer of SAP Document Management System, a two year project that I started to work on while under my previous Basis Role. This project included capturing all documents from outputs within the SAP system, converting documents from legacy systems, and interfacing via web services to external systems. I created the web service programs in ECC for use in Haworth's .Net front end, along with consuming and creating C# programs to use with this web service.Lead designer/developer of SAP Event Management a one year project responsible for tracking scenarios for procurement, sales, delivery and shipment. This included several enhancement implementations on both the ECC and EM systems in object oriented and procedural forms. I have also done the complete configuration in EM to handle the ECC events.Supported our custom development in ABAP for legacy interfacing and delivery grouping. This included bringing sub lines back from legacy to the Sales Order.
  • Haworth
    Basis Administrator
    Haworth Sep 2008 - Sep 2009
    Holland, Mi, 49423, Us
    Supported Systems, Applications, and Processes strategies set forth by the basis team.Maintained the company's SAP 6 system landscape (Dev, QA, Break Fix, Break Fix QA, Production). Within each system a multi-client global landscape strategy was used to ensure systems were managed and controlled per SAP's Best Practices. This allowed separation of config, development and master data. The landscape was comprised of ECC, BI, PI, SCM, EWM, TM, and SM.Participated in the maintenance of SAP's business responsibilities to ensure quality standards and needs of the business were met. Day to day tasks included transports, applying SAP notes, iDoc distribution models and monitoring systems.Lead project for the installation and configuration of MDM 7.1 and DMS (including a MaxDB content server) into the landscape. Provided design solutions for the architecture of iDoc structures being used by PI 7.1 for use in MDM.
  • Steelcase
    Application Engineer
    Steelcase May 2007 - Sep 2008
    Grand Rapids, Michigan, Us
    SAP ABAP developer and analyst creating enhancements and developing solutions for IT and business related issues. Work specifically in SD within SAP with variant configuration of products in a make-to-order industry. Create stock materials from specified variant configurations and reporting tools to order and maintain stock products. Lead our team’s implementation and migration to SharePoint 2007, including creating a POV on creating meta-data tags for easily searching documents. Created a Wiki to maintain documentation for common production issues and support audits. Also supporting ATP (Available To Promise) which provides dates to the customer based on capacity and other criteria.
  • Grand Valley State University
    Technology Purchasing Assistant
    Grand Valley State University Mar 2003 - May 2007
    Allendale, Mi, Us
    Ordered, received, and distributed computers, and peripherals. Maintained information included with purchase orders and internal accounts. Created and maintained database to correctly print labels, record PO’s, run queries, and print reports. Replaced legacy point-of-sale system and label system with a web based system.

Alex Patterson Education Details

  • Grand Valley State University
    Grand Valley State University
    Business
  • Grand Valley State University
    Grand Valley State University
    Business

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