Alex Harri

I'm super interested in software and design. I've been writing about software-related topics since 2019.

I've been working full-time as a software developer since May 2018, mostly at early-stage startups. I'm currently working at NeckCare.

Aside from work and writing, I enjoy physical activities of all kinds — primarily padel and weightlifting. I'm also a father to a wonderful daughter.

As a very early employee at Taktikal, and subsequently as a Tech Lead, I played a big part in the development of Taktikal's first products. I worked there for 4 years. Those were incredibly formative years — I gained invaluable experience in building applications from scratch and maintaining them as they evolve.

I joined GRID in 2022. I worked on their JavaScript-based spreadsheet engine running in the browser, their formula parser written in Rust, and I wrote some Python for the back-end. See "Making GRID's spreadsheet engine 10% faster".

After GRID, I spent a year and a half developing Arkio's modeling tools (Arkio is an architectural modeler and model reviewer written in C#). I learned a ton of 3D geometry and mathematics there. A few months into the job I wrote "Planes in 3D space" to share what I learned about the math behind planes.

I'm now working at NeckCare with two of my coworkers from GRID — they, and the rest of the team at NeckCare, are awesome people to work with. I'm enjoying life a lot right now.