ALEXANDER
BUSSEY

Front-end Software Engineer

(732) 735-9019
awbussey83@gmail.com
https://alexbussey.com
Philadelphia, PA (Open to Remote)

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

2021 - Present

Software Engineer

PagerDuty (via acquisition of Jeli) - Remote

  • 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.
2021

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.
2015 - 2020

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

TypeScript/JavaScriptCSS

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsNode.jsTailwind CSS

Tools/Testing

Component LibrariesVitestGraphQLStorybookCypress