Alex Smyntyna

Building Innovative & Reliable Solutions

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I craft seamless digital experiences by merging clean code, modern design, and efficient data management into high-performance solutions.

Featured Projects

Experience & Education

Freelance Full-Stack Developer @ Self-Employed

Port Charlotte, FL | Dec 2024Present

  • Built and shipped Clock Out, an iOS app for hourly workers to track shifts and earnings, published to the App Store.
  • Developed a professional portfolio site for Royal Custom Design, a woodworking business, featuring CMS integration for client-managed content updates.
  • Created a photography portfolio with multi-subdomain architecture and CDN-optimized image delivery for different client segments.
  • Built a Lightroom Classic plugin integrating local AI models via Ollama for automated photo metadata generation.

Full-Stack Developer @ Poynter Institute

St. Petersburg, FL | Aug 2022Dec 2024

  • Led the rebuild of the IFCN Code of Principles platform, designing and implementing both the Express/MongoDB backend and Next.js frontend from the ground up.
  • Built RESTful API endpoints with secure authentication and role-based access control for managing fact-checking organization applications worldwide.
  • Maintained and enhanced Poynter.org, implementing new frontend templates and improving legacy PHP templates.
  • Conducted regular code reviews and collaborated with non-technical stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable development tasks.

Full-Stack Software Developer @ Productive Cloud Solutions

Atlanta, GA | Oct 2020Aug 2022

  • Built multiple responsive WordPress sites for clients, translating mockups and wireframes into functional websites.
  • Collaborated with designers and copywriters to manage concurrent projects across multiple clients with varying technical requirements.
  • Developed React and Express coding examples and project materials for use in college courses and coding bootcamps.

Bachelor of Software Development @ Georgia Gwinnett College

Lawrenceville, GA | Jan 2017May 2021

Tools & Technologies

Next.js
Next.js
React
React
SwiftUI
SwiftUI
TypeScript
TypeScript
Express
Express
MongoDB
MongoDB
Node.js
Node.js
GraphQL
GraphQL
Python
Python
PHP
PHP
MySQL
MySQL
WordPress
WordPress
Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean
Git
Git
Figma
Figma

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