Alex Korban

I’m an author, software engineer (and engineering manager by day), and once a business co-founder.

Most recently, I’m leading engineering teams working on an enterprise learning management system.

Previously, I led DevOps and frontend teams at an electricity retailer. Before that, I spent two years working on software that helps individuals and businesses estimate and reduce their carbon footprint. I led a team that developed a new product using Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView.

In the open source world, I used to promote Elm and run several projects to make it easier for people to learn it and use it:

• I was the editor of Elm Weekly, a weekly Elm newsletter, from 2018 to 2021.
• I created and maintain Elm Catalog to help people find Elm packages & tools.
• I made a tool to generate JSON decoders and encoders from a JSON sample.
• I created a showcase for elm-ui to help people get started with mdgriffith/elm-ui
• I made Elmstatic, a static site generator for Elm
• I’m the author of the Practical Elm book
• I’m the author of elm-ui: The CSS Escape Plan, a guide to mdgriffith/elm-ui
• I wrote about Elm on my blog (35+ posts as of last count).

I also wrote a book about working with time in PostgreSQL.

In the past, I co-founded a company to visualise geospatial data for the heavy construction industry in order to improve safety and productivity when building roads, tunnels and other infrastructure.

In the more distant past, I worked on a wide range of software, from early mobile applications back in the days of Palm Pilot and Windows CE, to a flight simulator to guidance software for construction machinery like bulldozers, excavators and even self-driving kerb-extruding machines (which are massive things 4 metres tall!).

You can find even more details in my CV/resume.