Alec Dipasquale

Software Engineer · New Jersey

I ship mobile apps and the tools teams run on.

I shipped an Android launcher to Google Play on my own, backend included, and for the past year I've been the only engineer at a construction company, shipping 30+ internal tools. AI is part of how I work: Claude Code is my daily workflow, and I build agent systems of my own.

4+ yrsprofessional engineering
30+tools shipped solo in a year
16tools on my MCP server

Selected work

Things I've built

Five phones showing NextUp themes: molten, cyber city, silk, and goldLive on Google Play

Android · Kotlin · Firebase

NextUp Launcher

A custom Android home screen that re-themes every icon on the phone. I designed, built, and shipped it solo, including the cloud backend that renders the themes.

KotlinJetpack ComposeCloud FunctionsPlay Billing
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News Home and Weather Mode launcher screens5M+ installs

Android · ReachMobi · 2022–2024

News Home & Weather Mode

Home-screen launchers I led development on at ReachMobi. News Home reached 5M+ installs; Weather Mode lives on as All Weather Mode on Google Play. I raised the launcher default-set rate from ~55% to 75%+.

KotlinAndroidLauncherPerformance
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A grid of app icons re-rendered in many different theme styles

Icon-Theming Engine

The server-side renderer behind NextUp: computer-vision techniques that restyle any app icon into a coherent theme.

TypeScriptImage processingCloud Functions
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Three vertical video ads generated by the pipeline

Automated Ad Pipeline

Code that turns a JSON spec into finished vertical video ads, rendering the app's real themes and compositing with ffmpeg.

Node.jsffmpegsharpGenerative video
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WordPath 3D remake: a grassy island level with a letter rackPlayable

WordPath

A browser word-puzzle game with a fully tested rules engine, and a 3D Godot remake in progress. You can play it here.

JavaScriptnode:testPlaywrightGodot
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Audio→Whisper→Claude agent→MCP · 16 tools
Built solo

Agentic Meeting Assistant

Live meeting transcription on local GPU, a Claude agent that extracts action items as you talk, and an MCP server other agents can use.

ClaudeMCPWhisperTypeScript
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Android + iOS

Lifting Ledger

A workout logger built with Kotlin Multiplatform: a Compose Android app and a SwiftUI iOS client on one shared Kotlin core.

Kotlin MultiplatformComposeSwiftUIRoom
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Job Search Command Center dashboard with demo dataClaude Code

Job Search Command Center

An agent system that scans job boards, verifies openings, maps application forms and drafts answers every morning. I make every final submit.

Claude CodePlaywrightAgents
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AgenticBrain automation view with demo dataClaude Agent SDK

AgenticBrain

My self-hosted control center for Claude agents: model routing, memory, an independent self-check, a budget cap, and self-improvements I approve.

PythonFastAPIClaude Agent SDKMCP
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The Teams field app on a phone and the browser sidebar rail

Sole engineer · 2025–present

Construction Company Platform

The only engineer at a window & door construction company. I built a Teams field app and its photo pipeline, a browser sidebar rail, and an email archival API, on a platform of 82 flows and 37 Power Apps.

TypeScriptPower PlatformC# / .NET 8Azure
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Jul 2025 – present

Panoramic Window & Door Systems

Software Engineer (Contract), AI & Automation
  • Sole software engineer at a window & door construction company: 30+ internal tools, apps and components in under a year, across TypeScript, C#/.NET and the Microsoft cloud.
  • Built a Teams field app for installation crews and the photo pipeline behind it, plus a browser sidebar rail that puts the company's tools on every page.
  • Built Outlook email archival end to end: an Office.js add-in and a C#/.NET 8 API on Azure Functions, filing mail into SharePoint through Microsoft Graph.
Feb 2025 – present

Glacira LTD

Founder & Lead Android Engineer
  • Designed, built and shipped NextUp Launcher to Google Play solo, including its Firebase backend and Play Billing.
  • Built the server-side icon-theming engine and an automated pipeline that generates the app's video ads.
Jun 2024 – Feb 2025

Water Rabbit Studios

Co-Founder & Android Developer
  • Co-founded a two-person studio and built Stellar AI, an OpenAI-powered Android app for personalized content generation, owning the architecture, backend and local data layer.
Apr 2022 – Jun 2024

ReachMobi

Android Software Engineer
  • Led development of the News Home and Weather Mode launchers for a large Android audience; News Home reached 5M+ installs.
  • Raised the launcher default-set rate from ~55% to 75%+ by reworking cold start and moving work off the main thread.
  • Built REST layers with batching, caching and prefetch, and wrote the Swift UI for a native iOS news app.
2014 – 2021

Education

B.S. Computer Science, Montclair State University · A.S. Computer Science, Brookdale Community College

Also building

Side projects

Agentic Trading Desk

Paper trading only · Python, Claude, Streamlit

A team of Claude agents (technical, news, risk, portfolio manager) that research and debate stock ideas. A separate rule-based layer places the orders and enforces hard risk limits the agents can't override, backed by an audit log and tests of the safety limits.

Let's build something.

I'm open to full-time and contract roles in AI/agent engineering, mobile, and full-stack TypeScript, remote or hybrid around NYC and Philadelphia.