Alex Goodwin
Chief Executive Officer at Frenetic LLC
Torrance, California, United States
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RockstarAlex Goodwin is a seasoned software leader and CEO with over a decade of hands-on engineering experience spanning UX, low-level systems optimization, and AI/ML. He has an active open-source footprint going back nearly two decades, contributing notable projects such as the Citizens Minecraft NPC plugin and multiple Stable Diffusion and text-generation web UI enhancements. Alex combines backend systems expertise (C# & Java) with full-stack feature work—refactoring, UI improvements, and production-focused ML tooling like LoRA training integration. He has held machine learning engineering roles at Stability AI and InterPositive and currently serves as Creative Technology Specialist at Netflix while running Frenetic LLC. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Alex often surfaces non-obvious improvements such as performance fixes in entity navigation and metadata-aware image tooling that improve both developer ergonomics and runtime behavior.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (40)
transformers10
git10
debug10
javascript10
minecraft-forge10
file-management10
back-end-development10
python10
spigot10
image-processing10
plugin-development10
machine-learning10
stable-diffusion10
user-interface10
ui-design10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mcmonkeyprojects/sd-dynamic-thresholding
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Dynamic Thresholding (CFG Scale Fix) for Stable Diffusion (SwarmUI, ComfyUI, and Auto WebUI)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 46 commits, 15 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the Stable Diffusion dynamic thresholding extension. Their contributions include refactoring the code, adding advanced options with an accordion, incorporating a scale scheduler, and adding options to image metadata. They also addressed compatibility issues and improved the overall structure, leading to a more user-friendly and feature-rich tool.
CitizensDev/Citizens2
Sep 2014 - Nov 2021
Citizens - the premier plugin and API for creating server-side NPCs in Minecraft.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 95 commits, 47 PRs in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex focused on fixing bugs and improving various aspects of the Citizens plugin, which is designed for creating server-side NPCs in Minecraft. They addressed issues like `NavigationStuckEvent` exceptions, animation problems, and rabbit AI malfunctions. The user's contributions also include handling of entity type variations, and improving the efficiency of player list management and teleportation to improve NPC behavior and performance.
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