Alex Wolf
Founder & CEO at ScratchOdds
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wolf is a founder and full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer and fintech products, currently leading ScratchOdds as Founder & CEO while still hands-on as the sole engineer. He blends front-end passion (Vue, React) with backend and data expertise across Python, Django/FastAPI, Postgres, Snowflake, Airflow and AWS to deliver production-grade mobile and web services. Past roles include senior engineering positions at Bluevine and Mindbody where he shipped high-impact banking features, fraud workflows, and NLP-driven systems that scaled across enterprise customers. Alex is an active open-source contributor focused on UI/UX and cross-platform polish—his work on BoostNote-Legacy and React tooling like Guppy shows attention to developer experience and platform compatibility. Based in Fort Lauderdale and Dartmouth-trained in CS and Statistics, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of turning complex data and ML problems into user-facing products.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Major Statistics Minor, Computer Science Major Statistics Minor at Dartmouth College
English
Github Skills (14)
windows10
markdown10
javascript10
markdown-it10
codemirror10
electron10
react10
storybook9
stylus9
react-router9
nodejs9
git8
css8
open-source7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joshwcomeau/guppy
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
🐠A friendly application manager and task runner for React.js
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 102 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality and features of the React.js application. Their work involved implementing Windows support, including `.cmd` formatting and platform-specific adjustments, and integrating Storybook for component development and documentation. They also introduced features such as a "Clear state" menu item and added buttons for opening projects in the editor and Finder. Furthermore, the user worked on improving the project build process and user interface.
application-managerreactjavascriptdeveloper-toolsreact-js
BoostIO/BoostNote-Legacy
May 2019 - Apr 2020
This repository is outdated and new Boost Note app is available! We've launched a new Boost Note app which supports real-time collaborative writing. https://github.com/BoostIO/BoostNote-App
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 19 PRs, 105 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Boostnote-legacy application. They implemented tag link handling, enabling navigation to specific tags within the markdown editor. The user also added a MarkdownLint enable setting and made modifications to the code editor, markdown preview, and preference modal components. The contributions included fixing focus loss issues, and improvements to search functionality.
stylusreactelectronwindowscollaborative-writing
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