Hey 👋

I'm Lex.

A software engineer, OS contributor, and expert at finding weird edge-cases.

I've been building software since 2014 across fintech, big ticketing, creator economies, civic spaces and marketplaces.

• Contributor to webpack
• Contributor to Parcel
• Contributor to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM)
• Maintainer of react-use-is-online

• Internal tools
• Messaging systems
• Event-driven systems
• AI-assisted workflows
• Civic tech
• Things that keep the lights on and fires out

I blog intermittently at: https://medium.com/@thelextimes

You'll probably find me:

• reading urban history
• studying institutional failures
• going deep on random topics
• attending lectures
• overthinking simple ideas