Alex Graveley
Director, Comet at Perplexity
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Graveley is a veteran software leader with 25 years of experience building developer-facing products and privacy-preserving systems from open-source roots to AI-first startups. He created or led seminal projects including GitHub Copilot, Dropbox Paper (from Hackpad), Perplexity’s Comet browser, and early privacy crypto work at MobileCoin, demonstrating a knack for shipping collaborative and agentive tooling. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems engineering—dating back to libsoup and GNOME contributions—with product leadership as a founder and principal architect. Notably, his work repeatedly translates research-grade ideas (AI pair programming, secure enclaves) into widely used, production services.
25 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
W12, W12 at YCombinator
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (83)
visual-studio10
editor10
pygobject10
electron10
typescript10
github-copilot10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
gnome10
nautilus10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
classifier9
copilot9
github-issues9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
orph/jujitsu
Aug 2007 - Aug 2008
Contributions:58 commits in 11 months
orph/erjs
Dec 2007 - Sep 2022
Erlang-style concurrency with JavaScript 1.7
Contributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 14 years 11 months
gleamerlangconcurrencyjavascriptstructured-concurrency
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