About Me
Hello! My name is Alex Muench. I'm a software developer with over 10 years of professional experience. I grew up just outside of Chicago, and have been living in the city since 2013.
I have been tinkering with computers and programming since a child, and have been making websites since the days of Geocities. I'm also passionate about marine biology and the environment around us. I pursued both these topics in College, and graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a double major in Environmental Science and Computer Applications.
I've done the majority of my professional work in various agencies and consulting firms. I've done stints at Acquity Group, Accenture, and and Nerdery. This has allowed me to have a broad exposure to many different industries, projects, and techniques in my career.
I've also been heavily invested in the esports scene. From 2016-2018 I was involved with running the largest amateur Dota 2 leagues at the time. And though I eventually moved on, the experience of running teams and serving international groups of players was exciting and a massive learning experience.
After leaving EchoLeague, I spent several years at GGLeagues, a company focused on helping organization connect with their communities through esports, and offered the CTO role. In this role I architected our web application, managed our devops, grew our tech and product teams, and worked to build a platform that helps bring esports to everyone.
When GGLeague was shut down, I started at Strategypoint, where I helped a small team create Business Strategy Software that tried to make strategy simple and accessible for anyone! I joined as an experienced contributer, and helped modernize old systems and develop several new flagship features for the product, working directly with their CTO.
And now I am currently at Carta Healthcare, where I am a Senior UI/UX Engineer helping build and develop Carta's internal software, which helps us partner with healthcare organizations to streamline their clinical data collection, improving the quality of care given to patients!
While my career started primarily doing Front-End/UI Work, I have expanded my skillset over the last 10 years and am an experinced Full-Stack TypeScript/Javascript developer, with plenty of experience in both UI and Server-based work.
Outside of development, I've gotten very big into birding and bird photography. You can see my photography and progress over on eBird!. I'm also an avid World of Warcraft raider, and have been pushing AOTC for the last 3 seasons with my guild!
Skills:
- Proficient with Javascript, Typescript (Both on Front-End and Back-End)
- Proficient with HTML, CSS
- Proficient in Angular Framework architecture and development
- Proficient in React architecture and development
- Experienced in NextJS architecture and development
- Experienced in Linux systems administration
- Experienced in GCP, Digital Ocean, Linode devops
- Experienced in setup of Continuous Integration services
- Some experience with Godot, C#, Kotlin, React Native, Python, ElectronJS
- Some experience with AWS devops
