Alex Gap
Senior Software Engineer at Product Hunt
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Gap is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building backend and frontend systems, currently shaping product at Product Hunt after a multi-year tenure at ConsenSys Mesh. He’s taken research-grade ideas into production, contributing to an open-source payment channel network and implementing services in Go, TypeScript, and React. Comfortable across the stack, Alex blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic product delivery and a history of shipping in startup and consultancy environments. Based in Squamish, BC, he pairs a University of Waterloo computer science background with a maker mindset—his GitHub ethos, “I create/break things,” reflects a curiosity-driven approach to design and experimentation. Notably, his experience spans both long-term product engineering and short, impactful consultancy engagements, giving him a knack for rapidly turning ambiguous requirements into usable software.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (75)
monorepo10
go10
ethereum10
game-development9
blockchain9
browser8
javascript8
altium-designer8
react8
dapptools8
filecoin8
typescript8
thegraph8
foundry8
testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lalexgap/website
Oct 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
statechannels/SCBridge-Wallet
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 78 reviews, 60 PRs in 27 days
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