Alex Cushing
CTO, Co Founder at Perfectly Imperfect / PI.FYI
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Cushing is a product-minded engineering leader and co-founder with a decade of experience building consumer-facing web platforms and curated experiences. As CTO of Perfectly Imperfect, he helped scale a taste platform to 400k readers and 300k social app users while earning coverage in major outlets like The New York Times and The Verge. He blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship from roles at Wayfair and FantasyPros with platform and API design expertise developed as a senior engineer at BDG. Based in Boston, Alex is passionate about human-centered design in the age of AI, favoring thoughtfully curated interactions over algorithmic noise. Colleagues rely on him to move projects from schema and API design through polished, user-focused front ends.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UMass Lowell
Github Skills (42)
jsfiddle8
typescript8
microsoft7
electron7
vscode-extension7
vscode7
editor7
parser7
swift7
visual-studio6
objective-c6
visual-studio-code6
ios6
cocoapods5
vue5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tylerjbainbridge/roomio
Feb 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:11 PRs, 73 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years 3 months
messaging
alexcushing/portfolio
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:83 commits, 14 PRs, 81 pushes in 5 months
reactjavascriptreact-jsreactjsfront-end
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