Alex Wendland
CEO at Fira Health
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Wendland is a product-focused technology leader and founder with 12 years of experience building consumer health and fintech products from idea to market. He co-founded Luminopia and served as CTO when the company shipped the first FDA-approved VR neurological treatment, then returned to Harvard to complete a CS degree while advising startups and investing through Dorm Room Fund. Alex has held engineering and product leadership roles at Pinwheel, contributing across core platform, data, underwriting and product ops, and now leads Adaptive Innovations as Co-CEO. He is an active front-end contributor to notable open-source projects like Keybase, improving UX components and cross-platform client consistency. Based in New York, he blends startup grit, product sensibility, and hands-on engineering to tackle regulated, user-facing challenges.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Magna Cum Laude B.A. Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude B.A. Computer Science at Harvard UniversityCorona Del Mar High School
Stackoverflow
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3kreached
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
react-native10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
flow-control9
work-flow9
control-flow9
flowtype9
version-control6
azure6
error-handling6
azure-blob-storage6
tcp6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
keybase/client
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Keybase Go Library, Client, Service, OS X, iOS, Android, Electron
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 102 PRs, 162 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the front-end of the Keybase client application. Their commits demonstrate a focus on improving the UI components, including the `PinentryRender`, `Intro`, `Login`, and `UserProofs`. The user implemented and refined various UI elements by adding new components and modifying the existing ones for visual consistency and improved user experience.
golangreactelectronreact-nativeclient-library
awendland/blog
Dec 2013 - Jan 2023
Contributions:221 commits, 26 PRs, 130 pushes in 9 years 1 month
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