Marc Alexander
CTO & Co-Founder at NavMonster
Independence, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Alexander is a seasoned CTO and co-founder with decades of low-level firmware and BIOS expertise paired with modern mobile and API development skills. He built and runs NavMonster, a flight-planning platform used daily by thousands of general aviation pilots, and has repeatedly designed LAMP backends, web scrapers, and mobile APIs to tie complex data into polished iOS and Android clients. His background as a lead BIOS programmer and x86 assembler expert gives him a rare systems-level perspective that informs robust mobile and server designs. At companies from Dell to Visa he led mobile architecture and API efforts, shipping production iOS apps and scalable e-commerce services. An active iOS open-source contributor, he improved ARKit-CoreLocation to tighten AR/GPS integration—reflecting a practical focus on real-time device-server synchronization. Based in Independence, Oregon, he combines aviation domain passion with a hands-on engineering approach across Swift, PHP, C/C++, and firmware.
8 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Dobbs Ferry High SchoolBachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at University at Buffalo
Github Skills (6)
swift10
ios10
corelocation10
augmented-reality10
arkit10
ui-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
AndrewHartAR/ARKit-CoreLocation
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Combines the high accuracy of AR with the scale of GPS data.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:35 commits, 18 PRs, 44 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily focused on enhancing the ARKit-CoreLocation project with new features and improvements. They added support for AR orientation tracking, refined camera tracking synchronization, and introduced an option to switch between world tracking and orientation tracking. Furthermore, they addressed code issues, optimized the user interface, and made changes to the underlying code to improve overall performance and user experience.
accuracynorth-calibrationhigh-accuracyscaleaugmented-reality
Pilot-Marc/ARKit-CoreLocation
Aug 2017 - Dec 2019
Combines the high accuracy of AR with the scale of GPS data.
Contributions:7 PRs, 83 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years 4 months
high-accuracyscalegpsgps-trackinggps-data
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