🧑‍💻 Hi, I’m Alex (Xandev)

I’m a systems engineer turned software developer obsessed with building things that make Web3 more usable, reliable, and fun. After years leading secure infrastructure projects at my former job, II fell down the rabbit hole of building front ends, smart contracts, and open-source collaboration.

I’ve been learning, hacking, and shipping through The Odin Project, Cyfrin Updraft and communities like BuidlGuidl and SpeedRunEthereum, where I helped build an open-source website as part of Batch 13 and afterwards completed all CTF challenges on Optimism (https://ctf.buidlguidl.com/). Along the way, I’ve deployed all kinds of tutorial projects from those courses, and a dApp called StableSwap (a Uniswap-based stablecoin swapper), and a Full-Stack Blog API with secure CRUD, JWT authentication and MongoDB.

What drives me?

• 🌍 Open-source collaboration and sharing knowledge
• ⚙️ Making decentralized apps as reliable as enterprise systems
• 🧠 Constant learning — from zero-knowledge proofs to DevOps pipelines
• 🧩 Building products that bridge onchain and offchain worlds

I’m joining ETHDenver 2026 to collaborate, learn, and ship — ideally something that helps developers build faster or makes Web3 more approachable for everyone. If you see me around let’s talk about smart contracts, front-end UX, or weird side quests in Solidity. Also always down to talk about video games, hiking, all things bread, pizza, baking and football!

Let’s build something worth forking. 🦄