Alex Freska
Software Engineer at Rift
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Freska is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building distributed and user-focused systems, currently shaping the Sia Foundation’s open-source tooling for decentralized storage. He operates at the intersection of engineering and product design, emphasizing user agency and algorithmic transparency while working on local-first, p2p, and edge computing patterns. Alex has led R&D and shipped production-ready apps and developer tools—from encrypted p2p filesystems and decentralized DNS to renter/host tooling and wallet integrations—using Go, TypeScript, WASM, and React. His background spans ML-enabled medical imaging platforms, real-time analytics, and enterprise-scale web rewrites, reflecting an ability to translate research into practical, usable software. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines community-driven open-source stewardship with a practical focus on developer experience and observable, auditable systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Technology Management, Master's degree, Technology Management at Georgetown UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (146)
workspace10
sia10
wysiwyg10
rich-text10
storage10
pulse10
skynet10
blockchain10
javascript9
golang9
data-mapping9
editorjs9
cornerstone9
ipfs9
prosemirror9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SiaFoundation/web
Mar 2023 - Apr 2025
Web packages for the Sia project and ecosystem.
Contributions:16 releases, 315 reviews, 939 PRs in 2 years
hyperspacedc/flexkit
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 46 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 2 months
reactlayout-componentsreact-applicationslayoutdesign-system
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