Alex Wilton
Founding Engineer at Etherealize
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Wilton is a founding engineer with 11 years of experience building at the intersection of AI, blockchain, and institutional products from Austin, Texas. He combines hands-on full-stack development with startup and consultancy experience—leading architecture, CI/AWS strategy, and mentoring teams across time zones while shipping production systems for clients like Bloomberg, FCDO, and Kraken. A practical innovator, Alex has driven product launches and operational improvements (e.g., reducing coin onboarding time at Crypto Facilities) and contributed front-end enhancements to the widely used ag-Grid project around pivoting and group footers. He’s repeatedly operated in founding and early-stage roles—co-founding a funded DeliveryTech startup and serving as founding engineer for multiple ventures—bringing entrepreneurial grit to technically complex domains. Notably, his background spans both regulated institutional projects and cutting-edge crypto/AI integrations, reflecting a rare blend of domain sensitivity and experimental drive.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of St AndrewsExecutive Programme In Leadership & Management, Executive Programme In Leadership & Management at Leadership College LondonInternational Baccalaureate
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Github Skills (14)
datatables10
ag-grid10
javascript10
datatable10
html-table10
grid10
grids10
angular10
typescript4
typescripts4
react4
vue-jsx4
typescript-types4
vue4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ag-grid/ag-grid
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
The best JavaScript Data Table for building Enterprise Applications. Supports React / Angular / Vue / Plain JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 PRs, 67 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the front-end of the ag-Grid project. Their work involved implementing and enhancing features related to grid functionality, specifically pivoting, and group footers. This included adding new properties, modifying existing components, and integrating these features into the Angular and documentation sections. The changes also touched on the visual aspects of the grid, such as the checkbox for row group cells.
supports-reactpivotingchartingreact-gridvue
AlexWilton/Risk-World-Domination-Game
Jan 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:141 commits in 3 years 8 months
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