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Alec Zabel-Mena

Frontend Engineer

// puerto rico, pr · UTC-4

Building in the open from Puerto Rico. Frontend Engineer.

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Scouting report

Active Nix/systems tinkerer with a math-notes Zettelkasten

assessed from open-source footprint

Staff
69signal

Alec is currently one of the most active devs here — 182 commits last year, consistency 96, and a low 0.33 abandonment ratio — working a distinctive Nix/systems niche: a declarative NixOS + Nix-Darwin `.config` and a TeX `zettelkasten` of mathematics definitions. High originality (83) and reproducible-systems leanings (CSS/Nix/TeX/C/CUDA). Stars and followers are low and the work is niche/personal, so he fits infra/tooling or systems-leaning roles more than product-frontend despite the auto-derived label.

Authorship & open source

Primary authorwrote 96% of commits on zettelkasten
19 merged PRs182 commits / yr

What they build

Frontend50%
Systems28%
Design22%

Industry experience

  • Productivity & SaaS
  • Web & CMS
  • E-commerce & Retail

Signal breakdown

Originality83
Impact55
Consistency96
Polish46
Stars

5

top repo 2

Original repos

18

20% forks

Followers

20

On GitHub

6.2 yr

Live demos

1

Activity

Active

33% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 96% of commits on zettelkasten
  • 19 merged pull requests
  • Original builder — 18 of their own repositories
  • Consistently active, low abandonment
  • Frontend focus with Systems
  • Domain experience in Productivity & SaaS & Web & CMS
  • Core stack: CSS, Nix, TeX, C