Alec Deitloff
Senior Software Engineer at AngelList
San Bruno, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Deitloff is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping backend and full‑stack architecture at AngelList after leading major rewrites and tooling efforts at Safara and Verkada. He prioritizes maintainable, well-architected code without sacrificing delivery speed, and has a track record of large-scale renovations including TypeScript strict-mode enablement, lint-zero campaigns, and dependency-injection backend rewrites. Alec is fluent in TypeScript and Rust and especially enjoys building developer-facing systems—linters, build and CI tooling, and codegen extensions—that eliminate repetitive work and accelerate teams. His background spans game development to consumer web, where he optimized runtime performance, streaming, and release automation that cut release time dramatically. Based in San Bruno, he balances hands-on engineering with mentoring and is always shipping personal projects—ask him about his current one.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sycamore High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science German, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science German at University of Pittsburgh
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
starlark10
golang9
web-application9
plugin9
webpack-plugin9
discord-bot9
service-worker8
haddock8
application-cache8
discord8
jack8
mecab8
romaji8
htmlagilitypack7
discord-js7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ahlec/Phil
Sep 2017 - Feb 2022
A Node.js Discord bot designed for the Official Hijack (Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III/Jack Frost) server, but who's quite useful for all fandom servers.
Contributions:19 releases, 14 PRs, 232 pushes in 4 years 5 months
herokudiscordfandombotdiscord-bot
ahlec/jyosuushi
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
A small web application used for studying conjugation and usage of Japanese counters.
Contributions:13 releases, 8 reviews, 752 commits in 6 years 7 months
for-studyingstudyingconjugationcountersjapanese
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