Alan Hamlett
🚀 Founder & CEO @WakaTime — Previously @Airbnb — 🚲 Biking around 🌉 SF
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I'm a computer programmer, founder of multiple companies, and a Vim user.
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My Projects and Contributions
- 5k+ Followers on GitHub
- WakaTime (Founder & CEO) Built and grew WakaTime, used by programmers all over the world to measure their code stats.
- WakaQ Background Task Queue (Author) Open source Python library for running background tasks, a minimal alternative to Celery.
- WakaQ TypeScript library (Author) Open source TypeScript for running background tasks.
- Pip Update Requirements (Author) Open source Python library for managing your pip requirements files.
- Readtime (Author) Open source Python library for calculating and displaying Medium-style read times from article contents.
- GopherCon 2021 (Speaker) Listen to my lightnight talk about an SSD-backed Redis alternative.
- Flask-Login (Contributor) Open source Python Flask extension for user authentication and session management.
- Flask Static Compress (Author) Open source Python Flask extension that automatically combines, minifies, and vesions your static asset files by auto-detecting script and link elements in your Flask Jinja templates.
- San Francisco Flask Meetup Group (Founder) Hosted Python Flask talks for hundreds of SF engineers.