Hi, I'm Alex Watt.
I am a Pittsburgh-based software engineer. I love working with teams to build fast, stable, and scalable systems. Currently, I am working on search at Shopify.
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Beancount for Personal Finance
Using double-entry accounting and open source plain text accounting software for personal finances.
How I Learned to Program
Reflections on my first 20 years programming.
What I Learned About Work in 2021
I left a startup in 2021 to work at a bigger company and learned a few things about work along the way.
Hello Africa!
Helping an Ethiopian non-profit serve hundreds of poor families more effectively with data.