Alex Ose

Programmer with a background in design, based in Portland, Oregon. I build things with code, hardware, and 3D printers — often at the intersection of all three.

Work

Automattic / Parse.ly

Frontend Team Lead
Content analytics powering WordPress.com, Time, Bloomberg, and others.

United States Digital Service

Software Engineer
2015 – 2017 · The White House

Crimson Hexagon

UI Engineer
2014 – 2015 · Social media analytics

Sourcemap

Product Engineer
2011 – 2014 · Supply chain transparency

Projects

synthwave

OpenSCAD · Climate

An open-source experiment in carbon removal using the electrochemical pH swing of seawater. Designed for low-cost replication.

dorothy

LoRa · OpenSCAD · Hardware

A minimalist, open-source sensor platform built around the LoRa protocol. Low-cost environmental monitoring for remote locations.

claude-tmux-status

Shell · Developer Tools

Show Claude Code’s live state in your tmux status bar.

sieve

JavaScript · Proxy

Makes any resource on the web available to your client-side application, bypassing CORS restrictions.

homedash

IoT · Dashboard

A simple, hackable dashboard for your home’s IoT devices. Grandma-friendly.

calorie-tracker

Vue · AI

A custom calorie counter built on ChatGPT. Describe your meal in plain language and get a calorie estimate.

gridscheduler

Vue · Component

A drag-and-drop grid scheduler for Vue, inspired by uTorrent’s scheduling interface.

3D-Printing

OpenSCAD · G-code

A collection of 3D printing projects, models, and experiments.

convert

Node.js · OCR

Fast document OCR with Node.js and Socket.io. Drop files in, get text out.

reciplexity

AI · Food

A novel recipe generator that creates new dishes from ingredient combinations.

lazycrawler

Python · Web Scraping

The relaxed search spider. A polite, unhurried web crawler.

planka-notifications

JavaScript · Integration

A standalone plugin that forwards Planka project management notifications to Slack.