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Alex Spaulding

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Computer Science student at Eastern Washington University. Founder of Wawona, a native Wayland compositor for macOS, iOS, and Android. Also build macOS and iOS runtime tooling, reverse-engineering tools, and Nix infrastructure. Seeking internships or full-time as a Systems Software Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Developer Tools Engineer.

Resume

Education

Experience

  • Founder and Lead Engineer, Wawona

    2025-present

    • Native Wayland compositor for macOS, iOS, and Android (200+ stars): Rust core, Metal and Vulkan, UniFFI, Nix toolchain, TestFlight.
    • On-device shell and userland, Wayland graphics compatibility (GBM, EGL, ANGLE), Waypipe remote apps.

  • Assembly Technician, Sunburst Sensors

    2022-2025

    • Built and calibrated pCO2 and pH instruments; PCB soldering, firmware updates for 1,000+ microcontrollers, hydrostatic testing.

Selected work

  • Wawona nesting a KDE Plasma Linux desktop session on macOS

    Wawona

    2025-present

    231 stars

    Native Wayland compositor for macOS, iOS, and Android: nested Linux desktops, Waypipe, and on-device shell.

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  • macOS windows with apple-sharpener applying custom corner radii beside the default Liquid Glass look

    apple-sharpener

    2024-present

    305 stars

    macOS Ammonia tweak for arbitrary window corner radii (including square and squircles). Widely used after Liquid Glass pushed system radii much larger.

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  • Whisperer Apple Watch home screen with slate glow theme

    Whisperer

    2024-present

    Voice ChatGPT client for Apple Watch: Whisper transcription, streaming replies, TTS, OCR, and image generation.

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Also see: ModernOrange Band / Sentinel High School Computer Building Club

Skills

Core: Objective-C, Swift, Rust, C, Nix, macOS and iOS internals, Wayland, Metal, reverse engineering, continuous integration

Awards

GitHub

github.com/aspauldingcode

20262008 contributions (and counting)JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugMonWedFri20251011 contributionsJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMonWedFri2024879 contributionsJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMonWedFri2023216 contributionsJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMonWedFri4114 contributions total / 2023-present / @aspauldingcode

3,344

Commits

4,114

Contributions

45

Pull requests

453

Stars

55

Repositories

73

Followers

12 days

Current streak

17 days

Longest streak

596 since 2023

Active days

Languages

  • Swift31.4%
  • Objective-C18.5%
  • Nix14.6%
  • Shell7.1%
  • Python6.5%
  • JavaScript5.8%
  • TypeScript4.9%
  • Rust3.1%
  • Other8%

Language share by bytes across @aspauldingcode public repositories.

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Whisperer

2024-present

Whisperer Apple Watch home screen with slate glow theme

Whisperer is a watchOS app (with an optional iPhone companion) for chatting with AI from your wrist. Speak into the watch, get Whisper transcription, stream ChatGPT responses, and hear replies via text-to-speech. It also supports image generation, OCR from photos, language and voice settings, and Base16 theming.

API keys stay off-device via a Vercel proxy. Chat history lives on the device. Whisperer Plus is an optional subscription for Plus features. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use are published on this site for App Store review.

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