Alex Brandes
CTO at Constellation Network
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAlex Brandes is a CTO and seasoned engineering leader with a decade of experience building scalable APIs, analytics pipelines, and customer-facing dashboards across startups and growth-stage companies. He rose through roles from backend engineer to VP of Engineering and CTO at Constellation Network, pairing product-focused technical leadership with hands-on development. Alex is an active open-source maintainer and governance board member for Jenkins, contributing notable UI and localization improvements to core plugins and the Jenkins server itself. His background spans full-stack work, DevOps and test automation, and deep familiarity with performance-sensitive Java systems (e.g., FastAsyncWorldEdit and PlotSquared). Based in the Bay Area, he combines pragmatic engineering processes with a track record of shipping reliable systems handling high request volumes. An unexpected thread through his career is strong localization and internationalization expertise, reflected across several open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
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internationalization10
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Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
IntellectualSites/FastAsyncWorldEdit
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Blazingly fast world manipulation for artists, builders and everyone else.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 772 reviews, 652 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to enhancing the FastAsyncWorldEdit plugin, with a focus on command functionality. They modified existing commands, such as the debugpaste and tree tools, by adding new features or improving existing behavior and also introduced new functionality to the program. Their work involved modifying Java files within the worldedit-core module.
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IntellectualSites/PlotSquared
May 2018 - Jan 2023
PlotSquared - Reinventing the plotworld
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:4 releases, 523 reviews, 804 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex's primary contributions involve modifying the configuration of the PlotSquared plugin and integrating new translations for different languages. They updated settings files, added translations, and corrected minor bugs in the UI, and added functionality to incorporate language files. The contributions reveal their understanding of the plugin's core components, including its UI customization, and localization requirements.
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