Alex Onsager
Director Of New Product Development at Happy Elements
Kyoto, Japan
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Top SchoolAlex Onsager is a product-focused engineering leader with 14 years of experience turning ideas into hit social games and scalable services, currently directing New Product Development at Happy Elements in Kyoto. He guided Ensemble Stars! from concept to a multi-year top-grossing App Store title and established company-wide analytics and release practices that improved iteration cadence. His background spans founding-stage engineering, viral product growth on Facebook-era apps, and social game localization and operations, giving him deep expertise in metrics-driven design and cross-cultural team coordination. Known for blending hands-on technical problem solving (from neural-network gesture recognition to backend optimization) with strategic product timing, he builds teams and systems that repeatedly ship engaging, measurable experiences.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Fairview High SchoolB.S, Symbolic Systems, B.S, Symbolic Systems at Stanford University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
elevator6
jquery6
ruby-on-rails6
resque5
react4
monitoring3
game-programming3
nextjs3
game-development2
browser-history1
chrome1
full-text-search1
firefox1
pool1
uptime1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aonsager/aonsager.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jan 2026
Personal website and blog
Contributions:9 PRs, 341 pushes, 9 branches in 8 years 2 months
reactnextjs
aonsager/TwitterToDayOne
Apr 2012 - Mar 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 10 months
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