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J. Alex Whitman's Resume

Full-Stack Developer & Data Scientist

contact@jalexw.cajalexw.ca

Results-driven developer who excels at making complex ideas accessible to non-technical stakeholders through clear communication and engaging presentations. I am looking for a role where I can leverage both technical expertise and strong interpersonal skills to align teams and accelerate project outcomes.

Programming Languages

  1. 😍

    • TypeScript,
    • Rust,
    • Python

  2. 😁

    • C++,
    • C,
    • C#,
    • JavaScript,
    • HTML,
    • CSS,
    • SQL

  3. 🙂

    • Java,
    • PHP,
    • Perl,
    • R

Core Technical Skills

    O.O.P.Cross-Platform Apps (React Native + Tauri)LLMs & NLPDeep LearningC.I. & C.D.NetworkingLangChainAirflowContainerization & Kubernetes3D RenderingCryptographyAuthenticationTest-Driven DevelopmentWebSocketsRedisIaC (Terraform, Helm)APIs: REST, RPC, GraphQLVector SearchReact.js/Next.jsVue.jsAngular.js.NETNode.jsRedux

Education & Certifications

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Bachelor of Science

Western University

2022

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International Baccalaureate Diploma

Halifax Grammar School

2018

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Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Google Cloud Platform

2023

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Associate Cloud Engineer

Google Cloud Platform

2023

Relevant Work Experience

Aycoutay Technologies Ltd., Software Developer

2024, 2025

  • Created cross-platform Mac+Windows+Web Tauri app (Next.js/React.js app w/ TypeScript, TailwindCSS, & Redux, wrapped in Rust webview to collect data w/ native hardware driver), allowing real-time analysis and visualization of measurement data.
  • Rewrote Windows-only Visual Basic + C# USB driver as a cross-platform Rust driver (using rusb) to interact with hardware.
  • Set up Auth0 authentication, RBAC, and a tRPC (full-stack type-safety) Node.js API to store electrical readings in MongoDB.

SolutionInc Ltd., Software Developer

2019, 2023

  • Built customer and staff portal applications (using tech such as Angular.js, Express.js, Next.js, SQL) for a new ISP company to allow controlling and monitoring network + IPTV services + managing subscriptions with Chargebee. Designed and implemented high-availability Kubernetes cluster to host web applications across Proxmox cluster. Automated deployment w/ Helm & GitLab.
  • Upgraded a legacy LAMPerl-stack network monitoring dashboard to use containers, Cypress E2E testing, GitLab C.I./C.D. Added a report editing feature to allow customers to customize their hotel/convention center network gateway usage reports.
  • Returned in a software development position after working for a summer on the support & delivery team as a student, where I mostly worked on staging hardware with proprietary software for allowing secure in-room media casting in large hotel networks.

Praxes Medical Group Ltd., Software Developer

2021

  • Maintained and updated their serverless COVID testing software for public rapid testing sites and B2B employer-led testing; facilitated the reporting of 300,000+ test results to patients, as well as aggregate statistic reports to stakeholders.
  • Upgraded Firestore database to allow more performant result querying and storage of additional information about each test.
  • Designed and implemented volunteer registration system w/ Firebase Cloud Functions, Firestore database, and Vue.js app.

Race Auto Group Ltd., Software Developer & Service Desk Coordinator

2017, 2018, 2020, 2022

  • Rapidly designed and implemented a Next.js/React.js rental car booking system for the dealership to capitalize on a local rental car shortage w/ a dynamic price-calendar system by vehicle type and embedded Stripe payment processing.
  • Managed the service desk by creating work orders, ordering parts, resolving customer issues, and allocating mechanic time. Was responsible for keeping the company Wordpress website and integrated inventory system up to date.