Alexander H
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander H is a software engineer and technical leader with a decade of experience building compilers and backend systems, currently based in the Greater Seattle area. He co-founded multiple startups and has held CTO and lead-engineer roles, blending hands-on Rust development with product and team leadership. His open-source work includes substantial contributions to FuelLabs' sway language—implementing parsing, ASTs, type checking, opcodes, and end-to-end code generation for smart contracts. Comfortable across firmware, full-stack, and blockchain domains, he pairs low-level systems thinking with pragmatic startup execution. He also teaches and mentors—having led a university boot camp—which reflects a strong bias for knowledge transfer and team building. Unusually, he couples a BA in Chinese with a CS degree, bringing both technical depth and cross-cultural perspective to global engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chinese Language, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chinese Language at Trinity University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (13)
type-system10
programming-language10
compiler-design10
rust10
language-design10
code-generation10
abstract-syntax-tree10
blockchain9
fuel9
parser8
parserator8
intermediate-code7
irr7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
FuelLabs/sway
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 570 reviews, 259 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed extensively to the development of the `sway` programming language, a smart contract language for the Fuel blockchain. Their work primarily focused on building core language features, including parsing, abstract syntax tree (AST) construction, and type-checking mechanisms. The user's contributions involved implementing new opcodes and also included writing the necessary code generation logic for a complete compilation pipeline.
smart-contractsswaycompilerfuel
FuelLabs/sway-rfcs
Jun 2022 - Oct 2022
RFCs for changes to Sway
Contributions:15 reviews, 18 commits, 17 PRs in 3 months
swayrfcsduolingofuelchanges
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