Alex Hartford
Software Engineer at StartPlaying
Naperville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hartford is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with eight years of experience building customer-focused products across mobile, web, and serverless backends. He has taken ideas from prototype to production—founding Fresh Technologies to automate gun range operations for 20,000+ customers and co-founding SudoChef to pair IoT hardware with Flutter apps and voice assistants. At Banter he led iOS and Android development while architecting a serverless AWS backend and real-time GraphQL flows, and he now contributes to product development at StartPlaying. Comfortable across Kotlin/Swift/Flutter/React and cloud tooling, Alex blends hands-on engineering with product intuition and mentorship. He also contributes to open-source UI work for Flutter navigation components, demonstrating attention to polished front-end experiences. As a Naperville-based family man, he brings entrepreneurial grit and a bias for shipping usable, scalable systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English
Stackoverflow
5,570reputation
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87answers
2questions
flutter
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dart
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Github Skills (17)
flutter-apps10
flutter-packages10
flutter-widget10
flutter-game10
dart10
flutter10
flutter-plugin9
ui-design9
state-management6
riverpod6
firebase6
mockito6
android6
google-cloud-firestore6
flutter-provider6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sooxt98/google_nav_bar
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
A modern google style nav bar for flutter.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 29 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the example project, refactoring and upgrading it to use null safety. Their contributions focused on the user interface, as evidenced by their modifications to the `main_gallery.dart` and `main_advance.dart` files, which involve the implementation and styling of a navigation bar with different layouts and features using the GNav library. They also addressed comments and cleaned up code within the example project.
nav-barflutter-packageflutter-appsnavigationbarflutter-animation
AlexHartford/LoadBalancer
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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