Alec Thilenius
Co-Founder & Software Engineer at Tungsten Labs
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Thilenius is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder based in San Diego with 13 years of hands-on experience across embedded systems, graphics, game engines, networking, and full-stack web development. After multi-year engineering stints at Intel and Google and a year in mobile games, he co-founded Tungsten Labs with his former Google tech lead to tackle hard systems problems. Alec is an active open-source contributor, notably improving core ergonomics and logging in the high-performance Rust ECS library Legion, demonstrating a focus on maintainable, debuggable internals. He brings a mix of low-level performance sensibility and product-minded engineering, comfortable moving between hardware-accelerated graphics and backend systems. Outside of work he pursues high-adrenaline hobbies—flying (now training in aerobatics), climbing, surfing and skiing—which reflect his appetite for challenging, precision-driven tasks.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
rust10
amazon-ecs10
aws-ecs10
system-design9
logging7
algorithm6
webgl6
rgb6
overhead6
shader6
hsl6
colors6
networking6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
amethyst/legion
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
High performance Rust ECS library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 comments, 2 issues in 11 days
Contributions summary:Alec primarily contributed to the `legion` ECS library by modifying core system functionalities. Their work involved adding public modifiers to system types and resources, integrating them into the prelude, and extending the implementation of query sets. Additionally, they switched `println!` statements to `log::trace!` for improved logging. These changes indicate a focus on enhancing the library's internal structure, extending its capabilities, and improving debugging.
rustecs
AThilenius/MapReduce
Sep 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 5 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years 11 months
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