Alex Graul
VP Of Product - Platform & UX
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Graul is a Head of UX and UI Engineering with 14 years of experience blending design training and software engineering to lead product-focused teams across security and startup environments. He has scaled design and UI engineering organizations at CrowdStrike and now leads UX engineering at Obsidian Security, bringing deep expertise in visualising complex security data into actionable interfaces. A hands-on builder earlier in his career, Alex contributed to open-source tooling such as a JavaScript dataset library that simplifies client-side visualisations, adding features, tests and CSV parsing improvements. He also co-founded a stealth startup and advises VC-backed ventures, combining product instincts with operational experience. Based in Australia, he pairs creative information-design roots with rigorous platform-level engineering leadership, often translating newsroom- and trading-system-grade performance expectations into polished UX. Colleagues describe him as the kind of leader who still ships code while mentoring teams and investors alike.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic / Information Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic / Information Design at University of the Arts London
Github Skills (7)
unit-testing10
javascript10
lib10
data-structure9
csv-parse9
csv-parsing9
data-structures9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
misoproject/dataset
Jan 2012 - Nov 2012
JavaScript library that makes managing the data behind client-side visualisations easy
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `dataset` JavaScript library. Their work included implementing new features like string filter support and chainable methods. They also focused on fixing bugs, such as those related to affected rows, and added corresponding unit tests to enhance the library's reliability. Additionally, the user refactored code and improved the parsing of CSV files.
javascriptvisualizations
alexgraul/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Nov 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 4 months
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