Alec Kretch
Staff Software Engineer at Top Hat
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Kretch is a Staff Software Engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building mobile-first products and leading engineering teams, currently at Top Hat after his startup OpenClass was acquired. He blends deep iOS expertise—shipping features, refactors, and Swift migrations—with product instincts honed from founding two startups that automated content and assignments for students and educators. Alec has shipped apps across diverse markets, from Bangkok parking logistics to global language tutoring, often tackling localization, data aggregation, and accessibility. A University of Arizona computer science graduate who spent time at NUS, he pairs practical machine learning curiosity (a fan of multiclass classifiers) with hands-on architecture and mentoring experience. Notably, he helped onboard teams and led internal tech presentations, signaling strengths in technical leadership beyond individual contribution.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaExchange Program Computer Science, Exchange Program Computer Science at National University of Singapore
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Github Skills (27)
cocoapods8
e-mail6
mailgun6
html6
codeigniter6
heroku6
iphone6
docker6
objective-c6
mysql6
lms5
bots5
ios4
canvas-lms4
xamarin4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aleckretch/Romaji-to-Japanese-Converter
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
aleckretch/AK-POS-Tagger
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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