Hello 👋 I'm Alec Thilenius!

🔎 let intro = match (interests, repos) {

Interests and public repos

• 🔑 Distributed systems, networking and zero-trust infra
  • Maglev (src) Founded startup product; web-first p2p networking, zero-trust relays
  • Axum-Connect Rust server-side impl for Connect-Web
• 🦀 Rust, since 2018
  • Logic-Paint See below; my favorite personal project!
  • Axum-Connect Lots of meta-programming
• 🌐 Modern web tech (WASM, WebRTC, WebGL, WebGPU, SharedArrayBuffer-multithreading)
  • Logic-Paint Compiled to WASM, WebGL (soon to be WebGPU), multi-threading via SharedArrayBuffer and WebWorkers
  • Maglev (src) Based on WebRTC (with a Websocket fallback), WebCrypto
  • Simple Web Workers ES Proxy and WebWorker based mutlithreaded actor framework
• 🕹️ Hardware accelerated rendering / game engines (OpenGL/ES, Vulkan, WebGPU).
  • Logic-Paint Rendered in constant-time via pixel shader
  • Voxmod For-fun game engine mostly in C#, with the start of a transition to Rust
  • Filament-rs Idiomatic Rust bindings for Google Filament
  • Legion Transform ECS based space-transformation hierarchies
    • Originally authored by me, adopted by Amethyst, inspired early Bevy Transform
  • VoxelCraft One of my first ever projects, game engine written in C++, embedded C# scripting runtime via mono
• 💾 Embedded systems
  • Some work at Google in this space, and a ton of personal projects
  • Used: Arduino, arm ESP8266/32 RP2040, Embassy, Saleae L/A i2c, spi, can, uart, and so on
• 🗣️ Languages (most recently used first)
  • Rust, TypeScript, NuShell, SQL, Ruby, C#, Python, Go, GLSL, C/C++, Java, ObjectiveC

🏢 SELECT * FROM "career" ORDER BY "date" DESC

Career and Education

• WoodRiver Energy LLC Director of Technology (2022 - Present)
  • Direct the company-wide tech strategy and set priorities
  • Manage our growing tech team and mentor junior developers
  • Large back-office application efforts (React, Typescript, Rust, Hasura, PSQL, Nu, Ruby)
  • Public facing presence (Webflow, Vue, Typescript, Hasura)
  • Significant infra efforts (Proxmox, Dokku, Cloudflare, Tailscale, et. al)
• Tungsten Labs Co-founder (2021-2022)
  • Worked on Maglev, a peer-to-peer networking and RPC library focused on web-first (Typescript, Go)
  • Completed a working alpha but opportunities in life pulled both my partner and I away from it
• Sublink FTE (2019-2020)
  • Worked on Heroish in Unity DOTs (C#)
  • Also the 'miscellaneous' implementer, of things outside game code (Typescript)
• Google FTE (2017-2019, 2015, 2014)
  • ChromeOS (FTE)
    • Embedded device firmware, running on the EC (C, RTOS)
    • Infrastructure transition for ChromeOS build/test fleet (Python, Go)
  • College internships (2)
    • Hardware accelerated rendering of Google Maps desktop (Closure JS, GLSL)
    • Monitoring for (what became) Dataflow (C++)
• Blank Slate Systems FTE (2013)
  • iOS systems design, hardware accelerated rendering (ObjectiveC, C#, Xamarin)
• University of Colorado Boulder Student (2012-2016)
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
• Intel Intern (2006-2011)
  • College internships (3), high school internships (2)
  • Created and populated MOLAP cubes (data analytics)

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Non-technical Interest / Also Me

• 🌞 Live in San Diego
• 💍 My wonderful wife, who is my rock
• 👶 Our beautiful baby boy, that lights up my world
• 🛩️ Flying! Currently building an RV-14 in my garage.
• 🧗 Rock climbing
• 😁 Emojis (though I don't normally go this overboard)

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Nerd alert, NERD ALERT!!

• 📀 OS: NixOS, i3 WM
• 📄 Editor: NeoVim,
• 🌳 VCS: Jujitsu (backed by git), LazyGit
• 🛠️ Shell: NuShell
• ⌨️ Keyboard: Chocofi 36-key split

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❤️ open my-projects.toml | sort-by -r interest | take 1

My favorite personal project!

https://github.com/AThilenius/logic-paint-rs

• Based on a game by Zachtronics called KOHCTPYKTOP, which sadly isn't playable any more because it's a flash game
• Written in Rust (because of course it is)
• Compiled to WASM
• Uses WebGL2 for fixed-cost (by pixels) hardware accelerated rendering
  • Each 'cell' is a single 16 bit unsigned texel and rendered entirely in a fragment shader.
• Lets you edit and simulate transistors (something between BJT and CMOS, for you hardware people)

Once I finished with the editor I then built a functional 16 bit CPU in it, modeled after the CL-3B ISA. It's micro-coded with a common 16-bit bus, 8 registers with dual output and a 16K of RAM (not drawn here).

I love this project dearly, because it requires knowledge of how a computer works all the way from the transistor up to WASM running in Chromium. Next up is a toy language with a homemade compiler for it 😊 Have to rewrite my parser-generator first though!