Alec Lownes
Author at Self-employed
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Lownes is a full-stack software engineer and author based in Pittsburgh with 12 years of experience building reliable web and mobile systems using JavaScript, Java, Python, and Android. He has shipped production-scale features at Duolingo and led eCommerce and internal platform work that spanned frontend, backend, and database changes. Alec combines hands-on engineering—rewriting a Swing offline tool as an Electron React-Redux app and integrating build tooling for cross-browser compatibility—with product-minded authorship, publishing books through his own imprint. His background in psychology and crisis counseling informs a user-focused approach to design and resilient system behavior under stress.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology at Wright State University
English
Github Skills (113)
hyper10
linux10
frontier10
css10
hyperterm10
javascript9
cli9
html9
prettify9
simulator9
atom-editor9
windows9
simulation9
procedural-generation9
react9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cakenggt/aleclownes.com
Jun 2015 - Apr 2026
My website code
Contributions:1 release, 125 pushes, 10 branches in 10 years 11 months
cakenggt/sailing
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
A sailing mod for minetest
Contributions:1 release, 28 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
minetest
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