Alexander Lowry
Software developer, maker
Work
Thank You, Five!
Project architect and domain expert for theatre stage management software to improve communication between departments.
- Created Ruby on Rails application for domain-specific problems.
- Wrote Axum microservice in Rust to handle tens of thousands of processing requests per second on a single-core processor and 1 GB of RAM.
- Designed and wrote core application for business workflows, working on both product and engineering.
Seismic
Creator of internal Ruby on Rails & React admin tools, data pipeline debugger, and AI workflow integration implementer.
- Cross-domain programmer, spanning microservices and Sidekiq jobs to reduce technical debt and debug data pipeline issues.
- Executed projects across multiple microservices and repos, unifying essential groundwork for customer projects.
Posts
WASM for Offline-First Collaboration
Theatres have thick walls and bad WiFi. Compiling the reconciliation algorithm to WebAssembly let every client run an exact copy of the server's logic, so documents survive dropped connections — and one very bad bug.
Models and Miniatures
3D printing, painting, and lighting