Andy Alt
Founder & CEO at A Little Thunder LLC
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Alt is a founder, inventor and product-minded engineer who has spent 15 years fusing music, hardware and software to create commercially successful musical technologies. As CEO of A Little Thunder he led the development and patenting of a DSP-embedded “smart” guitar pickup with capacitive touch, Bluetooth and AI features that has shipped to over 10,000 players and been adopted by touring artists like ZZ Top and James Taylor. Prior to that he ran online marketing for Steve Vai, built GuitarTV, and has deep experience in digital strategy, copywriting and ecommerce for clients from PayPal to Intel. He is also an active open-source contributor with C and Linux experience since the 1990s, contributing to projects ranging from json-c to game and web apps where he focused on robustness, internationalization and build systems. Comfortable moving between hardware firmware, frontend UX and go-to-market strategy, he brings a rare blend of creative musicianship and pragmatic engineering. A lesser-known strength: he combines decades of hands-on C/Linux tinkering with product-level patent work and community-driven marketing to ship technically ambitious consumer music gear.
15 years of coding experience
BS, BA, Advertising, BS, BA, Advertising at Kent State UniversityUpper St Clair High School, PA
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Github Skills (36)
microstrategy10
json10
i18n-node10
internationalization10
rails10
cmake10
c1110
c1710
lua10
localize10
localization10
i18n-js10
i18next10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
Programming languages (40)
Github contributions (5)
ifmeorg/ifme
Sep 2017 - Jan 2020
Free, open source mental health communication web app to share experiences with loved ones
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 commits, 55 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to the frontend and internationalization aspects of the ifme project. They added and modified links for social media and open source contribution platforms within the application's footer and about pages. They also worked on integrating RSS feeds and implemented language support for Swedish, along with associated UI changes, including modifying Javascript to display available languages in the announcement bar.
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json-c/json-c
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
https://github.com/json-c/json-c is the official code repository for json-c. See the wiki for release tarballs for download. API docs at http://json-c.github.io/json-c/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 13 PRs, 26 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Andy contributed to the json-c project by addressing reported issues and enhancing the library's robustness. They fixed a bug in the `json_object_get_double()` function by setting `errno` and also added documentation for `json_object_new_string_len()`. Additionally, the user made a small grammar improvement to documentation. The user's work is focused on improving the core functionality and documentation of the json-c library.
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