Like clockwork

Alex has an amazing talent for figuring out how to make tools work better. He uses this skill to improve our news analyzer Managing News, of which he’s been the lead developer from its conception, and to devise smart workflows for multilingual websites.

Before joining the team, Alex managed information technology for Fundación Casa de los Tres Mundos, a development and cultural promotion organization in Nicaragua. While working in the country, he became involved in the Central American open source community.

His curiosity makes him regularly leave the realm of mere coding. In 2006, he conceived and organized a traveling exhibit depicting life in Nicaragua and in its sweatshops that toured in Nicaragua and Europe.

Alex also has a penchant for utopian automatons. He helped build the most human-like robot ever made (it drank beer), a pancake catapult, and a spherical virtual reality interface.

His mixture of curiosity and ability help Alex conceive and build truly innovative tools – no matter what the goals are. Aside from his excellent coding, we all cherish his cooking skills and desire to share with us Austrian delicacies.