hey, I'm alex 👋

I worked with Raycast — a YC W20 startup — to help them build out their command-palette productivity app. I prototyped, shaped and built out new flows, and implemented new product features and supporting infrastructure in the app.

I was one of the founding members of the Spark AR team, working on Spark AR Studio, a Mac (then cross-platform) app which has established a community of over 400k creators. I built many core components and implemented key infrastructure in the app, and was one of the tech leads on the project.

I also worked on various iOS projects including a new post format experiment, and products and infrastructure to improve the video posting experience.

I prototyped and implemented new interactive teaching components and a new layout system for the Codecademy learning environment, validating the efficacy of the new components by carrying out in-person and remote user research.

I also improved the content delivery infrastructure for the new learning experience and designed a new submission validation system.

For both of my internships I worked on Safari for macOS, and prototyped new features core to the browsing experience in the app*.

*that's about all I can say 😬

I worked with Sketch (previously Bohemian Coding) on their font management app, Fontcase. I built out an optimised font preview UI to handle font libraries of many thousands of fonts whilst being buttery responsive.

I worked on a very early version of Sketch, integrating and wiring up their custom native sidebar component.