Alex Hinds
Founder at Halyard
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hinds is a founder and product-focused engineering leader with a decade of experience building developer-friendly front-end platforms and AI-infused products. He has driven core platform architecture and cross-functional product work from seed to Series B—most recently shaping agent architectures, infra on GKE/GCP, and design systems at fast-moving startups and Atlassian. A former journalist with dual degrees in Computer Science and Commerce, he pairs clear customer-centered storytelling with rigorous technical execution and a talent for mentoring engineers and designers. He excels at turning early, messy prototypes into resilient, production-grade systems that handle tens of thousands of daily requests. Currently running Halyard Labs and advising startups as a fractional CTO, he’s focused on empowering users to get the most from AI experiences while keeping developer productivity and reliability front of mind.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Philosophy, Philosophy, Diploma of Philosophy, Philosophy at University of New England (AU)The University of SydneyUNSW Sydney
spanish (conversational)
Stackoverflow
280reputation
152kreached
10answers
3questions
Github Skills (150)
composition10
compile-time10
css-in-js10
parcel10
high-performance10
assertion10
decorator10
compile10
debug10
css10
emotion10
webpack10
babel-plugin10
codemod10
react10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
DarkPurple141/teaching-18s1
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:54 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
DarkPurple141/portfolio
Dec 2017 - Mar 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 187 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 3 months
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