Hi, I’m Alec—an entrepreneur based in Philadelphia. I’m the founder of MortgageCS, an independent mortgage brokerage delivering white-glove service and competitive rates, and FinancialCS, a platform designed to help people take control of their life and finances.
With a background in building tech solutions for Fortune 500 companies, I’m passionate about working at the intersection of human and technology. I like to think of myself as a short-term pessimist, long-term optimist—always building toward a better future.
Most companies try to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to visual design, but for Planetaria we needed to create a brand that would still inspire us 100 years from now when humanity has spread across our entire solar system.
When you’re building a website for a company as ambitious as Planetaria, you need to make an impression. I wanted people to visit our website and see animations that looked more realistic than reality itself.
When we released the first version of cosmOS last year, it was written in Go. Go is a wonderful programming language, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen an thought on the front page of Hacker News about rewriting some important tool in Go and I see thoughts on there about rewriting things in Rust every single week.
