Alex Gunnarson
Founder at Onton
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gunnarson is a founder and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, real-time systems and startups from San Francisco. He currently leads Onton after founding Spand, a low-code platform inspired by user-owned data models and reminiscent of Solid, and brings practical lessons from a prior market-fit failure to new product strategy. Alex has deep backend and Clojure expertise—having prototyped early ideas that influenced Roam Research and redesigned equities analytics to materially improve executive decision-making. He also built low-latency telephony systems and financial data tooling capable of processing millions of rows per day, demonstrating a focus on reliability and performance. Comfortable spanning product, architecture, and hands-on implementation, he combines entrepreneurial grit with an attention to data ownership and verification. Based in San Francisco, he channels that focus into automating discovery and verification of truth across systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Portuguese, creoles and pidgins, portuguese-based, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit
Stackoverflow
385reputation
28kreached
6answers
8questions
Github Skills (200)
edn10
tabular10
babashka10
application-framework10
s-expressions10
netty10
react-dom10
terraform-provider10
connection-pool10
windowing10
clojurescript10
figwheel10
terraform10
matlab10
virtualization10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
alexandergunnarson/quantum
Sep 2014 - Jan 2019
Abstracting one quantum at a time.
Contributions:2615 commits, 6 PRs, 1065 pushes in 4 years 4 months
quantumquantum-computing
alexandergunnarson/gradual
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Gradual, dependent typing for Clojure(Script). Also comes with clojure.spec interop.
Contributions:33 commits, 16 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 month
gradualspecclojurescriptclojure-specclojure
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