Alex Browne
Co-Founder And CTO at Harmony Intelligence
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Browne is a seasoned software leader and founder with 14 years of experience, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Harmony Intelligence in San Francisco, where he focuses on evaluating autonomous agent capabilities and AI safety for leading labs and government agencies. He combines hands-on engineering with product and security sensibilities from prior technical leadership roles at Edge Analytics, 0x, and Plaid, and a history of founding and scaling early-stage startups. Deeply technical, Alex has made notable open-source contributions to core networking projects like go-libp2p and pion/webrtc, implementing browser/WebAssembly WebSocket and WebRTC bindings to bring peer-to-peer protocols into the browser. His background in electrical engineering and computer science from Duke underpins a pragmatic approach to complex distributed systems and ML-driven products. Colleagues describe him as an operator who bridges low-level protocol work with high-level evaluation and red-teaming of AI systems. He brings an uncommon mix of startup grit, protocol-level craftsmanship, and a mission-driven focus on AI safety and security.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Dual Major), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Dual Major) at Duke University
Github Skills (14)
blazor-webassembly10
javascript10
websocket10
webassembly10
go10
rust-wasm10
webrtc10
libp2p10
testing10
networking9
datachannel9
golang9
audio8
streaming7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
libp2p/go-libp2p
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
libp2p implementation in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the WebSocket transport implementation within the libp2p project, focusing on browser-based WebSockets and Wasm support. Their work included implementing core functionalities, such as reading and writing data, and addressing connection management issues. The user also refactored and improved error handling within the WebSocket browser implementation and wss dial support. This involved adapting code to work within a browser environment and integrating with the existing libp2p architecture.
golangipfsp2ppeer-to-peerorbitdb
pion/webrtc
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 15 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on implementing WebRTC API bindings for JavaScript/WASM within the Go-based pion/webrtc repository. They added JavaScript/WASM bindings to enable core parts of the project to run in the browser, specifically supporting data channels initially. They also added tests to validate the WASM bindings, using a Node.js environment and wrtc package. Furthermore, the user refactored code and improved build tags to improve API compatibility between Go and WASM.
webrtcpure-gogovideowebrtc-api
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