Alex Dytrych
Making A Very Good Whiteboard at tldraw
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Dytrych is a full‑stack developer, designer, and educator with 11 years of experience building delightful product experiences, currently focused on making a very good whiteboard at tldraw. They bring deep React and TypeScript expertise—demonstrated by UI work and feature development on the popular tldraw infinite canvas SDK—and a background that spans product engineering at Airtable, founding an edtech studio, and shipping games that teach kids to code. Comfortable across frontend, backend, and education contexts, Alex has led product design and engineering, taught code and game design, and built realtime tooling and APIs. Based in London, they blend hands‑on implementation with product intuition and an uncommon emphasis on developer-facing UX for creative tools.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (12)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
component-kit10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
canvas10
ui-components10
collaboration9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tldraw/tldraw
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
whiteboard SDK / infinite canvas SDK
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 495 reviews, 518 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily focus on implementing and modifying UI components within the `tldraw/tldraw` repository. They introduced a maintenance mode, added notices and an example for image annotation, and updated the existing UI components. They demonstrated expertise in React and TypeScript by modifying several components to implement new features, fix existing issues, and improve the user experience.
reactsvgtinysketchwhiteboard
SomeHats/oulipo
Jul 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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