Alexander Danilowicz
Co-Founder at Magic Patterns
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Danilowicz is a product-minded software engineer and two-time founder with eight years of experience building consumer and developer-facing web apps from San Francisco. A Dartmouth CS graduate with economics training and a Y Combinator founder alumni, he co-founded Magic Patterns after launching a viral college project, Left on Read, which sparked his passion for shipping internet products. He combines full‑stack chops—CLI/CI integrations and Next.js frontends among them—with early-stage startup grit, having been the first engineer at Canopy and contributed key automation to the open-source Magic Patterns Catalog. Comfortable moving between product, growth, and infrastructure, he focuses on tooling that helps other builders discover and ship components faster.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
W23, W23 at Y CombinatorBachelor’s Degree Computer Science modified with Economics, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science modified with Economics at Dartmouth CollegeSt. Augustine High School
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
nextjs10
go10
react10
cicd9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
component-library9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
magicpatterns/catalog
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
The Magic Patterns Catalog is an open-source website that lists the most popular React component libraries, helping you find the perfect component.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 98 reviews, 130 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the development of a command-line interface (CLI) and its integration with a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. Their work involved setting up the CLI directory, implementing a basic gorelease GitHub action, and integrating with a Next.js editor. The user also worked on the frontend by merging the main branch into the project.
component-librarydesigndesign-systemreactstyling
Teddarific/client-leftonread
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
The client repo for Left On Read.
Contributions:34 PRs, 50 pushes, 33 branches in 5 months
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