Alex Wilkerson
Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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SeniorAlex Wilkerson is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building production systems, currently shaping engineering at The New York Times after multiple roles there since 2021. He brings senior-level practice from Lucid’s integrations and marketplace work, pairing product-focused engineering with pragmatic systems thinking. Based in Salt Lake City, he combines a "code warrior" mindset with a writer’s clarity—aptly calling himself an "author for computers"—which surfaces in readable, maintainable code and clear cross-team communication. His background includes hands-on operational experience from earlier service roles, giving him an uncommon appreciation for resilient, user-centered systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (53)
git10
github10
discord9
shortcuts9
vscode-extension9
discord-bot9
vscode9
keybindings9
discord-py8
xcode8
google-cloud8
hcl8
cocoa8
objective-c8
markdown8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexwilkerson/ddstats
May 2018 - Jan 2020
(old) ddstats website
Contributions:266 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
alexwilkerson/ddstats-server
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 372 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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