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 (148)
hyper10
hyperterm10
javascript9
linux9
prettify9
simulator9
atom-editor9
simulation9
css9
procedural-generation9
react9
frontier9
physics9
macos9
html8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cakenggt/aleclownes.com
Jun 2015 - Oct 2023
My website code
Contributions:1 release, 111 pushes, 10 branches in 8 years 5 months
cakenggt/hyperatompunk
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
cyberpunkhyperterm
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