About

👋 Hi, I’m Alex Watt. I’m a software engineer in Pittsburgh. Two of my favorite things:

• Applying tech to domains that haven’t seen much innovation
• Helping people learn - there’s nothing like the lightbulb moment of realization!

You can learn more about my work on my LinkedIn - or check my now page for what I’m doing currently. Outside work, I sometimes do consulting and volunteer projects, like this project for Ethiopia ACT 🌍.

My hobbies include:

• ⛰️ Exploring the outdoors with my wife (running, biking, and hiking)
• 🎹 Making music (mainly piano with a little guitar)
• 📖 Reading (I’m on Goodreads)
• 🎲 Playing board games with friends
• 👨‍🍳 Cooking and baking
• 💻 Dabbling with tech
• 📷 Photography

I love meeting people. If you want to reach out, email and Twitter are the best ways.

Thriving

I’ve identified a bunch of things that contribute to my thriving:

• Learning new things
• Making connections (people with people, ideas with ideas)
• Having autonomy
• Sharing knowledge
• Imagining the future and working backwards
• Being in the zone
• Shipping high-quality and high-impact work
• Creating clarity out of ambiguity
• Striving towards an ambitious goal

I don’t need all of these to be present all of the time, but these have a high correlation with my satisfaction.

Education

• Grove City College: Computer Engineering, 2014-2017 (Summa Cum Laude)

Fun Facts

• I studied abroad in Nantes, France for a semester
• I wrote a Rails app in high school that still powers everyday operations for RC WATT, the family business
• I won the 2010 National Bible Bee (Junior division)
• I’m an inventor on a few patents
• I care a lot about the tools I use. I keep a list here.