About Me

Hi, my name is Alex Cook. I am a software engineer in Portland, OR. I graduated from the University of Oregon in March 2016 with a degree in Applied Physics. Just before my graduation, I was offered a data engineering position at a startup, Carevoyance. After Carevoyance, I was employed as a Software Engineer at Wellsource for more than seven years. Working at Wellsource was really fun. I was named Employee of the Quarter in spring of 2017 and Employee of the Year in 2019.

Most recently, I was employed as a Senior Software Engineer at Solv Health for fifteen months prior to being laid off due a departmental outsourcing.

I enjoy running, being outdoors, cooking, building tiny computers and golf.

About the Tech

This webapp runs on a t2.micro CentOS 7 Amazon EC2 instance. Data is stored on PostgreSQL 9.6. I use FastAPI, a Python-based micro web framework and a Python-based server, Gunicorn, to host this application. Nginx functions as a reverse proxy.

I use a little bit of jQuery, but the rest of the application's functionality is controlled via pure Javascript. I use Redis, Systemd, and Cron to support data services and infrastructure tasks. The website is stylized using Bootstrap 4. Visualizations were done using D3.js.

I believe in an open, accessible, and secure internet. This site has received an A+ security rating from SSL Labs. HTTPS certificate provided by Let's Encrypt. Every page on this site has received a score of at least 90 on Google's Page Speed Insights.

You can checkout the source code for this project here. This software is covered by the MIT License, you are free to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies without restriction.