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
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