Alex Graveley

alexgraveley@gmail.com

Objective

High-impact position with a company that fosters innovation and creativity.

Experience

• GitHub Inc.
  April 2020 - November 2022
  Principal Engineer, Chief Architect GitHub Copilot

  • Created GitHub Copilot, a tool for pair programming with AI. Led development and design, working closely with partners at Microsoft and OpenAI.

• MobileCoin Inc. via Beatnik Consulting LLC
  June 2018 - March 2019
  Lead Engineer

  • Prototyped fast, scalable, private cryptocurrency for Signal Messenger. Based on Stellar consensus, CryptoNote ledger, and Intel SGX.
  • Designed and implemented privacy-preserving scalable wallet service based on Intel SGX.

• Intuition Machines Inc. via Beatnik Consulting LLC
  December 2017 - June 2018
  Product Lead

  • Shipped hcaptcha.com, a CAPTCHA system and image labeling marketplace.
  • Implemented CAPTCHA frontend and API including reCAPTCHA API compatibility.

• Magic Inc.
  January 2016 - July 2017
  Engineer

  • Implemented automatic time tracking for personal assistants, greatly improving billing accuracy.
  • Shipped AI text response generation based on seq2seq with attention. Saves 30 minutes of typing per day per 100 employees.

• Hackpad Inc. acquired by Dropbox Inc. (YC W12)
  December 2010 - April 2015
  Founder/CEO

  • Created hackpad.com, a realtime collaborative wiki.
  • Shipped Dropbox Paper based on Hackpad - millions of MAU today.

• VMware Inc.
  December 2004 - June 2009
  Senior Member of Technical Staff

  • Technical Lead for VMware Workstation 6.0 product suite.
  • Created VMware Horizon Client for Linux. Shipped on millions of thin client devices.

• Ximian Inc.
  November 2000 - May 2003
  Hacker

  • Created libsoup, a C-based HTTP client library. Shipped by default on all Linux desktops.
  • Contributions to many open-source projects, including Evolution, Gnome, Mono.

Open Source

• Created Tomboy, a popular desktop note-taking application.
• Created Gimmie, a desktop organizer for Linux.
• Created Jujitsu, a minimalist IDE.
• Created Pyro Desktop, an X11 window manager based on Firefox.
• Released Hackpad source post-acquisition.
• Speaker at conferences including SXSW, OLS, GUADEC.

Personal

• Accomplished hiker - completed Annapurna Circuit, GR20 & John Muir
• Lifelong volunteer - Brazil, Southeast Asia, Fiji & Austin
• Retired Powerlifter - 1250 lb. total
• Cancer survivor since 2018

References available upon request