Alex Wykoff
Head Of Product Crypto at Airfoil
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wykoff is a product leader and former engineer with 11+ years building consumer-facing crypto products and developer tooling, currently serving as Head of Product, Crypto in Austin. He helped scale Brave Rewards from early days to one of the largest connected digital wallet networks, contributing both product strategy and hands-on front-end work (including notable commits to the Brave browser repo). Alex has launched distributed staking solutions, NFT projects, and created the first quarterly reports for a firm managing over $2B in assets, blending rigor from QA, research, and interaction design. A frequent speaker and podcast host in the web3 space, he also curates events and judged Consensus’ Web3athon, signaling deep community and industry ties. His background across engineering, UX, and product gives him a rare ability to translate low-level technical constraints into high-impact crypto product experiences.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Lock Haven University of PennsylvaniaInteraction Design and Social Entrepreneurship, Interaction Design and Social Entrepreneurship at Austin Center for Design어학당 한국어, 어학당 한국어 at Yonsei University
Korean, Chinese, English
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
browser10
autofill10
react9
testing9
electron9
immutablejs8
html7
css5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brave/browser-laptop
Aug 2016 - Aug 2017
[DEPRECATED] Please see https://github.com/brave/brave-browser for the current version of Brave
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 48 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the Brave browser's autofill feature, modifying JavaScript files and related tests. Their commits included adding, removing, and modifying autofill functionality for addresses and credit cards, as well as incorporating changes to the about:preferences page. They also updated ledger-related components and made several changes to the UI and preferences, and modified context menu and general application configurations. These changes suggest a focus on frontend and backend integration related to user-facing features and overall application behavior.
browserwindowsjavascriptbrave-browserlinux
alexwykoff/alexwykoff
Jul 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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