Summary
Alexander Mccaleb is a Senior Android Engineer with 12 years of experience building mobile apps, game engines, embedded systems, and medical-device software across startups and enterprise teams in the Bay Area. He combines deep Android expertise with cross-platform fluency—having contributed to Unity integrations, iOS efforts, and the Corona SDK—while leading engineering practices, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes. His work at pediatric digital health company Cognoa involved FDA-conscious test automation and unifying iOS/Android architecture, showing his ability to deliver regulated, safety-critical software. As a founding engineer at Firefly and CTO/co-founder roles, he’s shipped hardware-integrated displays, tooling, and city-safety experiments like wildfire air-quality alerts. He also runs freelance and open-source-oriented projects, frequently architecting Flutter-based cross-platform infrastructure to speed client delivery. Based in Portola Valley, he pairs game-design roots with systems-level engineering to pursue products that can entertain, inform, or even improve health outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Award, Mobile Application Development, 4.0, Professional Award, Mobile Application Development, 4.0 at University of California, Santa Cruz - Extension
High School Diploma, General Education, High School Diploma, General Education at San Lorenzo Valley High School
University of California Santa Cruz
Mathematics, Mathematics at Cabrillo College
Computer Science, Computer Science at Udemy
Computer Science, Computer Science at Zero To Mastery Academy
c/c++, c#, java, lua, actionscript 3, bash/shell, javascript, processing, objective-c, assembly: lc-3, hc11, x86, mips, sparc, html5/css, shader: glsl, hlsl, wiring, swift, python, markdown, perl, game engine specific: gml, unrealscript, ruby, verilog, tcl, kotlin, groovy