OpenAI
AI products
Building ChatGPT products and systems that bring model capabilities into everyday use.
Software engineer and writer
Alex Leung
I build products and systems that make new technology useful in everyday life. I write about software, technical books, and life outside work.
Now — what I’m up to
Work and study
Experience
Jetson
Home electrification
Built products and systems to make home electrification easier across North America.
AR and AI glasses
Built the platform that powered Google's AR glasses.
Cash App
Consumer finance
Built products and systems used by millions of customers to move and manage their money.
North
Consumer smartglasses
Built the world's first display-integrated consumer smartglasses.
P.Eng.
Professional Engineers Ontario · Since 2017
Georgia Tech
MSECE, Electrical & Computer Engineering · 2013–2016
Waterloo
BASc, Electrical Engineering & Pure Mathematics · 2008–2013
Outside work
Interests
I spend time reading, playing tennis, hiking, climbing, and hanging out with my cats. I write about technical books and life outside work alongside my software notes.
My Now page is a short update on what I'm reading and doing.
- Reading
- Technology and history
- Outdoors
- Hiking and climbing
- Sport
- Tennis
- Home
- Two cats
Notes and essays
Latest writing
Humanity’s Cosmic Endowment
Who is the cosmic endowment owed to, and what might we owe the conscious minds we create?
Two Nights in Desolation Wilderness
A Labor Day weekend backpacking trip from Granite Lake to Upper Velma Lake, with a new sleep setup and more food than we needed.
Trip to Southern Utah
We flew to Las Vegas, drove into southern Utah, and hiked around Zion, Escalante, and Bryce Canyon.
Contact
Say hello
The contact page has the best ways to reach me and follow new writing.