Summary
Alex Mcleod is a founder and CTO with nearly a decade of hands-on software engineering and leadership experience building product-led startups and new product categories. He has led full-stack teams and shipped hardware-software integrations at Verkada (alarms, sensors, embedded systems) and scaled product platforms as CTO at Myagi and OurHome, with multiple successful exits. Comfortable across Python, Go, C, TypeScript, React/React Native, Kotlin and cloud-native infrastructure, he excels at taking products from prototype to production for both mobile and embedded devices. Based in Valparaiso, Florida, he’s currently recruiting founding engineers to join his latest venture, Serval, launched in 2024. Notably, his background blends embedded/edge systems experience with consumer-facing mobile apps, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on product and platform trade-offs. He enjoys learning continuously and thrives on building teams that can move quickly from idea to customer impact.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
The University High School
English, French, Italian