Available for opportunities

Hey,
this is me

Builder of thoughtful things.
Curious about almost everything.

I'm Alex Mora — a product-minded developer who obsesses over the gap between "it works" and "it delights." I've spent the last several years shipping software that sits at the intersection of design and engineering, collaborating with teams small enough to know everyone's coffee order.

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8+
Years shipping
34
Projects shipped
3
Continents worked from
∞
Tabs open right now

Selected work

2024
Lead Frontend Engineer
Helix Studio
Led a redesign of the core editor experience, cutting task-completion time by 38%. Introduced a design-token pipeline that unified 4 product surfaces.
2022
Senior Software Engineer
Lumen Labs
Built a real-time collaboration layer on top of an existing SaaS platform — 0 to 12,000 concurrent users in the first quarter post-launch.
2020
Founding Engineer
Drift & Anchor
Joined as the third engineer; helped grow the team to 18 and the product to a Series A. Owned the payments and onboarding surfaces end-to-end.

Interests & obsessions

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Type design
Collecting and dissecting typefaces since 2017.
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Film photography
Mostly 35mm. Mostly overexposed.
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Architecture
Brutalism and the spaces people actually inhabit.
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Language learning
Currently on Japanese kanji. Slowly.
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Long-distance cycling
4,200 km logged so far this year.
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Open-source tools
If I use it daily, I try to contribute.