Alek Hurst
Founder & CEO at Lumyx
South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlek Hurst is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building products from MVP to scale, currently leading Lumyx to simplify complex legal cases with courtroom-ready presentations. He has repeatedly served as an early engineer or head of engineering—helping seed-stage startups ship core product V1s and later managing organizations of ~50 engineers across cloud and forensics products. Alek combines hands-on full‑stack experience (React/TypeScript, GraphQL, Node) with product instincts proven by launching high-adoption features and dramatically reducing technical debt. He also founded a popular YouTube project documenting custom camper van builds, which reached 90,000 subscribers and funded further builds—an example of his maker mindset and ability to grow an audience. Based in South Lake Tahoe, Alek pairs entrepreneurial grit with courtroom-facing product focus, aiming to build something people want before the runway runs out.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Santa Clara University
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4,735reputation
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21questions
react-native
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javascript
top-5%
fetch-api
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Github Skills (62)
ios10
react-native10
android10
react10
google-authentication9
google-api9
javascript9
cross-platform9
react-google-login9
google-login9
mobile9
fetch-api9
angular8
yaml8
google-sign-in8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alekhurst/react-native-elevated-view
Nov 2016 - May 2017
Cross platform component for material design elevation on iOS and Android (in React Native)
Contributions:2 releases, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 6 months
androidiosmaterial-designreact-native
alekhurst/WynoAdmin
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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