Alton Chaney
Director, Frontend Engineering at Tecovas
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlton Chaney is a director of frontend engineering with 12 years of experience building performant web and mobile experiences, currently leading front-end at Tecovas from Austin. He specializes in modern frontend stacks—Shopify Hydrogen, React, React Native, and Angular—and has a track record of shipping migrations and features that measurably improve site speed, conversions, and YoY sales. His work spans practical UX optimization (reducing taps across complex onboarding flows) to advanced features like OCR-driven document pipelines, direct-to-browser scanning, and native wallet integrations. He pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded tooling, having centralized product launch workflows that saved cross-department hours. Outside work he’s a design-minded technologist and former game lead/artist, which shows in his emphasis on polished interactions and emergent technologies like AR/VR. Based in Austin, he’s also a runner, reader, and proud family man—traits that inform a pragmatic, user-focused leadership style.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of KansasCommunication Design, Communication Design at Texas State University
Github Skills (15)
hydrogen10
remix10
shopify10
react9
webapp7
experiences7
css7
fundamentals6
javascript6
remix-run6
sanity6
react-router5
backend4
react-native-app3
asynchronous2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
altonchaney/alamo-alerts-client
Mar 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years
altonchaney/cosmere-maps
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A Webapp built to provide a clear visual for the various journeys characters take in Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere books.
Contributions:67 commits, 7 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 months
cssjavascriptentertainmentsandersonmapping
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