Alex Fox
Founder at Studio Amplify
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Fox is a product-focused full-stack engineer and founder with 11+ years building web and mobile experiences, currently serving as CTO at Secret Spa and Solo while launching mood.camera. He specializes in JavaScript, React Native and Node.js, with Objective-C experience, and a track record of shipping polished consumer apps—several promoted by Apple, featured on TechCrunch/Mashable, and collectively downloaded 150k+. Alex combines rapid prototyping and deep UX sensitivity to take projects from concept and branding through to full-stack release, often experimenting with generative audio and novel gestural interfaces from his Studio Amplify work. He’s an active open-source contributor (notably improving the lightweight lax.js scroll-animation library) and brings multidisciplinary creative skills in photography, music production and design that inform delightful product experiences. Based in Stony Stratford, he blends startup leadership with hands-on engineering and a knack for turning playful ideas into commercially recognized apps.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The Manor AcademyBusiness Studies, Business Management, Business Studies, Business Management at University of Derby
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
animation10
html9
css9
htaccess6
apache6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexfoxy/lax.js
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
Simple & lightweight (<4kb gzipped) vanilla JavaScript library to create smooth & beautiful animations when you scroll.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 4 reviews, 201 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the front-end of the `lax.js` library, which is a vanilla JavaScript library for creating animations. Their contributions involved refactoring the code, renaming variables, and adding new features. Additionally, the user made modifications to the HTML examples to demonstrate the usage of the library with the new changes.
parallaxsmooth-scrollingjavascript-libraryanimationscroll
alexfoxy/juicr.js
May 2019 - Jul 2019
A simple (and tiny <1kb) redux inspired reducer for handling state changes.
Contributions:3 releases, 38 commits, 29 pushes in 2 months
dispatchreactstate-managementreducertiny
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