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Open to work

Alex Chen

Full Stack Engineer

Turning ideas into products, one commit at a time.

The Journey

The Climb

Skills earned at altitude, one base camp at a time.

·Summit

Always Climbing

The mountain has no ceiling. Neither does curiosity.

AI / LLMsWebAssemblySystem DesignOpen Source
4,800 m·The Ridge

Infrastructure

Keeping systems fast, available, and resilient.

AWSDockerCI/CDTerraformNginxMonitoring
3,600 m·High Camp

Backend

Reliable systems working beneath the surface.

Node.jsPythonPostgreSQLRedisRESTGraphQL
2,400 m·First Ascent

Frontend

Interfaces that feel as good as they look.

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSMotionFigmaAccessibility
1,200 m·Base Camp

Foundations

The fundamentals every climb depends on.

HTMLCSSJavaScriptTypeScriptGitLinux

Side Trails

Personal Projects

Experiments, tools, and things built for the love of building.

Trailhead

An open-source route planner for alpine hikers. Offline-first PWA with elevation profiles and GPX export.

Next.jsLeafletSupabasePWA

Basecamp UI

A minimal component library inspired by expedition gear — built for clarity under pressure.

ReactTypeScriptStorybookRadix

Summit Logs

Personal climbing journal with weather overlays, photo geo-tagging, and shareable trip reports.

SvelteKitMapboxCloudflareD3