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Vicc Alexander

Vicc Alexander

Vicc Alexander is a software engineer and technology entrepreneur based out of San Francisco. He is currently a Senior Engineer at Coinbase and previously co-founded Polly and Whale. [undefined] [1]

Education

Vicc Alexander graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 2014, with a Bachelor of Arts in Art Practice, and a minor in Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. [undefined]

Career

In 2018, Vicc Alexander became a Senior Engineer at Coinbase.

Before joining Coinbase, he was the co-founder and the Head of Design & Mobile Engineering at Polly, a polling app integrated with Snapchat. Polly participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch and has been used by more than 40 million teens worldwide. From 2017 to 2018, Vicc also worked as full-time writer for iOS Dev Weekly. [undefined] [12][8][11]

Previously he co-founded Whale, a video Q&A app, with Justin Kan (Founder of Twitch). In 2016, along with Marlon Lopez and Saul Lopez, he helped build LooBot, an SMS bot aimed at connecting those without WiFi-access to gender-neutral public toilet restrooms and charging outlets nearby. It took the 1st place spot at Grindr's Hack 4 Equality hackathon. [undefined] [undefined] In 2014, Alexander developed Chameleon, an open-source Swift framework, while studying at Berkeley. As of 2018, Chameleon has garnered over 11,000 stars on GitHub, has been downloaded more than 1 million times, and has been used in more than 30,000 apps. [undefined]

References

[1]
Citation Linkblog.ycombinator.comBlog post form Y Combinator mentioning Polly.
Jun 18, 2018, 12:08 AM
[2]
Citation Linkcrunchbase.comCrunchbase account with updated work.
Jun 18, 2018, 12:09 AM
[3]
Citation Linkproducthunt.comProduct Hunt page for Whale with list of founders.
Jun 18, 2018, 12:09 AM
[4]
Citation Linktechcrunch.comPolly’s teen polling app piggybacks on Snapchat
Jan 14, 2019, 9:18 PM
[5]
Citation Linkangel.coVicc Alexander on AngelList
Jan 14, 2019, 9:42 PM
[6]
Citation Linkgithub.comVicc Alexander on GitHub
Jan 14, 2019, 9:54 PM
[7]
Citation Linkgithub.comChameleon Color framework for Swift & Objective-C (Gradient colors, hexcode support, colors from images & more).
Jan 14, 2019, 9:55 PM