# Alex Homer

> Engineer

Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexhomer

Experienced in building high scale web applications. I strongly value collaboration and continuing to grow as a team member and an engineer.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Smartsheet
Jan 2020 – Present

### Co-Founder / CTO @ NurtureTheEssence.com
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Portland, Oregon, United States
- NurtureTheEssence.com is a web app for Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners to prescribe medical Qi Gong videos for their patients
- Conceptualized, designed, and built full stack application
- Technologies included NestJS, AWS, Heroku, Node, TypeScript, React, Apollo, GraphQL

### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Dubsmash
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
-First front end engineering hire for Series B startup with millions of users
-Responsible for building out team, making architectural decisions, mentoring more junior developers, working with designers, constantly iterating on products
-Technologies included React, Apollo, GraphQL, Express, Django, Typescript

### Front End Engineer @ EPIX
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
­-Led team to write “Netflix­like” HTML5/Javascript applications for viewing video content on AndroidTV, TiVos, Amazon Fire, Windows Universal, and several other platforms
-Architected and helped build front end for EPIX.com
-Mentored more junior developers

### UX Engineer / Front End Web Developer @ InRhythm
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
- Consultant building full stack JavaScript app for online credit card applications

### Front End Engineer @ BORN Group
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Built web front ends for a range of clients including big names the NFL Network, Saks, and DKNY. 

Built internal tools used by all front end developers at Born. Carried out an accessibility refactor for a major e-commerce website.

### Web Developer / Team leader / Communications Director / UX Person @ Rheti
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Durham, NC
Built and maintained Rheti's website.

Led a team to rework Rheti’s UX and UI by creating and editing wireframes. Helped lead an offsite Android development team in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Organized a relaunch of Rheti which resulted in an increase of several thousand users over the course of a week. Was responsible for conveying Rheti's message to investors, press, and shareholders.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English Major, Business Minor
Tulane University
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/realalexhomer
- Website: http://realalexhomer.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22