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 (88)
fixprotocol10
golang10
monorepo10
typescript10
nitro10
ethereum10
blockchain10
dfinity10
browser9
wallet9
react9
modularity8
solidity8
javascript8
altium-designer8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
statechannels/nitro-gui
May 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:20 reviews, 25 PRs, 117 pushes in 2 months
statechannels/SAFE-protocol
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Low-cost and fast L2 to L1 token withdrawal
Contributions:1 release, 109 reviews, 242 commits in 2 months
ethereumlow-costtokenwithdrawal
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