Alexander Ward
Founder at Cthonic Studios LLC
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Ward is a founder and seasoned software architect with 15+ years building scalable web, mobile, and cloud platforms from startups to Fortune 100 companies. He blends hands-on engineering (Typescript, Python, PHP, Node.js) with enterprise architecture leadership, having driven platform strategy, microservices, security practices, and rapid prototyping at Pfizer. As founder of Cthonic Studios he also designs and ships tabletop RPGs, applying product instincts across game design, layout, and marketing. His background includes performance and infrastructure work—AWS, RabbitMQ, MySQL—and a knack for squeezing efficiency from legacy stacks and hybrid mobile apps. He pairs an uncommon humanities education in Anthropology and Classics with deep technical fluency, which shows up in his interest in design patterns, language syntax memorization, and creative, "wacky" ideas that spark new products. Based in Portland, OR, he thrives at the intersection of playful creativity and practical, secure platform engineering.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Anthropology and Classics, BA Anthropology and Classics at University of Oklahoma
English, Latin, Japanese, German
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Github Skills (163)
ionic10
site-builder10
site-generator10
java10
parrot10
android10
page-builder10
cordova10
css10
drag-and-drop10
javascript9
laravel9
stencil-components9
angular9
android-apps9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
cthos/atom-gitbook
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:86 commits, 66 PRs, 58 pushes in 6 months
atom-pluginatomeditinggitbook
cthos/odt-to-pdf
Jan 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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