My name is Alexander Espinoza.

I am a software engineer by day.

At night, I follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.

I am currently located in Providence, RI.

Here are some things I've created.

Aesymmetric

A boutique custom development and conversion rate optimization agency serving direct to consumer Shopify brands and other SaaS clients.

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AI Companion Chat App

Designed a scalable Rails 8 “Solid stack” app (Hotwire, Stimulus, Turbo, Solid Cable, Solid Queue, Solid Cache, SQLite, Litestream, AWS) to support thousands of DAUs and 100+ concurrent users.

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Donation Pop

Available on the Shopify App Store, adds donation functionality to stores, installed by 500+ brands. Built with Rails 7, PostgreSQL, Turbolinks, Sidekiq, Redis, Liquid, Shopify Polaris, Shopify CLI & API.

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Clipsey

Twitch clip downloader web app, 7,000+ DAUs. Back-end serverless API using Ruby on Jets, AWS Lambda, API Gateway & S3, with front-end static site using vanilla JS, HTML, CSS.

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Tell Me Where To Eat

A web app that chooses a random restaurant close to your location. Front-end made with React, back-end made with Rails. Uses the Yelp, Google Maps, and Google Geocoder APIs.

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