ALEXANDER
BUSSEY
Front-end Software Engineer
About Me
Front-End Engineer with over a decade of professional experience building scalable media and incident response platforms. Expert in React and TypeScript with a proven track record of leading large-scale framework migrations and working with robust internal design systems.
Experience
Jul 2022 - Aug 2026
Software Engineer
PagerDuty (via acquisition of Jeli) - Remote
- Adoption of AI Tooling: Part of the team responsible for driving usage of AI tooling throughout the organization. Created workflows and commands to automate several parts of the development process, including scaffolding and pull request maintenance.
- Architectual Modernization: Leading a large-scale initiative to migrate legacy Elixir and Backbone.js web applications to a modern React/TypeScript toolchain, improving developer ergonomics and application performance.
- Infrastructure Strategy: Standardizing frontend patterns and build processes across legacy codebases to align with PagerDuty’s global infrastructure standards.
- Product Continuity (Jeli): Managed the post-acquisition transition of the Jeli incident response platform, delivering core feature updates and ensuring service stability during the initial five-month integration phase.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with product and backend teams to deconstruct monolithic Elixir views into modular React components without interrupting the critical incident response workflow for enterprise customers.
- Incident Analysis and Response: Engineered core user-facing features for Jeli’s incident response platform within a high-velocity frontend team, delivering critical tooling used by enterprise organizations to manage high-stakes service outages.
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Senior Software Engineer
CommonBond - Remote
Note: Role ended due to company-wide layoff and subsequent closure.
- Authentication Architecture: Led the initial phase of a security-critical project to migrate multiple micro-frontends to a unified authentication flow, delivering the technical specification and core integration patterns.
- Technical Discovery: Conducted deep-dive audits of legacy frontend performance, identifying key bottlenecks and proposing a modernization roadmap that informed the engineering team’s strategic priorities.
Aug 2015 - Dec 2021
Software Engineer
JW Player - New York, NY (Remote after March 2020)
- Delivering Value: Developed core features and advertising plugins for a JavaScript video player utilized by millions of end-users globally, ensuring cross-browser compatibility and low-latency playback.
- Modernizing the Stack: Key contributor to a multi-year strategic initiative to migrate the primary customer dashboard from Angular to React, resulting in a more modular codebase and faster release cycles.
Education
Pennsylvania State University
Information Sciences & Technology
University of Phoenix
Associates of Arts in Information Technology
Expertise
Languages
TypeScriptJavaScript
Frameworks
ReactNext.jsNode.jsTailwind CSSTanstack Start
Tools/Testing
Component LibrariesVitestGraphQLStorybookCypressRTK QueryTanstackPlaywright
AI
ClaudeGitHub Copilot