Scouting report
Founder of WakaTime; pip-update-requirements (642โ )
assessed from open-source footprint
Alan is the founder of WakaTime and the most proven builder here โ his own Python tools carry real adoption, led by pip-update-requirements (642โ ) and readtime (127โ ), with 825 commits and 1,070 merged PRs in the last year and 5,124 followers. His listed external repos (linguist, wakapi, flask-login) are mostly watch-list stars with 0โ1 commits, so the signal is his personal products, not upstream contributions. A genuine principal-level founder-engineer for product and developer-tooling teams.
Authorship & open source
Contributes to
- github-linguist/linguist13,497โ
- muety/wakapi4,320โ
- maxcountryman/flask-login3,679โ
- Hipo/university-domains-list1,608โ
What they build
Industry experience
- Web & CMS
- Security & Identity
- IoT & Hardware
Signal breakdown
903
top repo 642
16
84% forks
5,124
15.5 yr
9
Active
63% stale
Strengths
- Verified author โ wrote 92% of commits on pip-update-requirements
- Open-source contributor โ 25 external projects incl. github-linguist/linguist (13,497โ )
- 1,070 merged pull requests
- 825 commits in the past year
- 903 stars earned across projects
- A standout project with 642 stars
- Ships to production โ 9 live demos
About
๐ Founder of wakatime.com โ Building wonderful.dev, the social network for tech โ Find me in ๐ SF, ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น EU, and ๐ฉ๐ด DomRep โ 120 public repositories and 5,124 followers on GitHub.
Skills
- Python
- Swift
- Lua
- Dependency Manager
- Pip
- Blog
- Medium
- Read Time