# Alex Pattison

> Founding Software Engineer at ValsAI

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexpattison

I’m a full-stack JavaScript engineer who has worked extensively in today’s foremost frameworks. I bring with me a breadth of experience in React, Redux, GraphQL, Apollo, and Typescript.

## Work Experience
### Founding Software Engineer @ Vals AI
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Robin Healthcare
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Robin takes care of admin work so doctors can take care of patients

Led UI/UX development of our Assist App where scribes could view video
feed and dictations from Robin devices

Built out our rich audio player so scribes could listen to dictations
made by doctors on our iPhone App

Worked heavily with design and our devices team to build out our video
player, displaying video and transcriptions of appointments

Built out filters to help scribes display only relevant appointments

Created our inbox view so that scribes could see a priority queue of work
to be done, helping to maintain our 24 hour SLA with doctors

Utilized websockets to display who was currently working on specific
tasks, preventing redundant work

Worked with design to create a common component library utilizing MUI
with a bespoke theme to reflect our branding

### Software Engineer @ Labelbox
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Labelbox is the premier data training platform 

Built out pen, bounding box, and polygon tools for our rich label editor
Migrated our label format from json to individually modeled entities, allowing for feature level granularity for all analytics

Built out our async-undoable component allowing us to optimistically render changes made by users undoing/redoing while persisting these changes to the server in the background

Helped migrate from Prisma to TypeORM allowing us to handle significantly higher throughput while maintaining type safety across our frontend and backend

Refactored our heavier GraphQL queries to use the Dataloader pattern preventing redundant data from being fetched when multiple child queries requested the same data

### Software Engineer @ Yola.com
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Yola.com is a state of the art drag-and-drop website builder boasting 12 million active users.

Designed and built content-aware, responsive, custom web components for the flagship application

Refactored and expanded the build systems of Yola’s frontend micro apps to drastically reduce bundle recompile time and add source maps for JS and CSS

Purged 20 kB of jQuery plugin bloat from the vendor bundle of our online store and replaced the missing functionality with a vanilla JS solution, resulting in a 12% reduction of page load time

Crafted the frontend components for our website importer, allowing users to selectively scrape content from websites built on other platforms

### Mathematics Teacher @ Great Hearts Academies
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015


## Education
### Computer Science
Hack Reactor
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
St. John's College
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-pattison

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Last updated: 2026-03-20