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Alex Stout
Engineer · dad · builder of an unreasonable number of things
I build things. Web apps, AI tools, firmware, films, a smart home that mostly listens, whatever my kids dream up for the science fair. Some of it ships to clients, some of it runs my house, some of it exists purely because I wondered if it would work.
13+ years as an engineer pays the bills. The rest is curiosity with a garage.
$ whoami
The guy who’d rather build it than buy it.
Salt Lake Valley, married, two kids, 13+ years a software engineer. I’m the guy behind the Goal Zero app and the connected Yeti power stations, and these days I lead applied AI at BioLite / Goal Zero. That’s the day job, and it’s a good one.
The rest of my time looks suspiciously similar: a house full of sensors and automations, a film studio I started after making a memorial film for my dad, a ballot app my friends use every Oscars night, and whatever’s currently in pieces on the workbench. I just like making things, and I’m not picky about what.
$ ls ~/projects
Things I’ve built
Everlife Media
2024–PresentMy own studio for turning life’s moments into media families keep: documentary memorial films, tape/photo digitization, and bespoke event-experience tech. Started with a film for my dad.
bensfilm.live
2024A living memorial site for my dad’s video work — the project that became the heart of Everlife. Documentary-style storytelling, published for family to keep forever.
Oscars Party App
2023A live ballot + leaderboard webapp for Oscar-night parties: pick winners, score in real time, talk trash with friends. Built for fun, used every February.
The Home Lab
OngoingMy house is a test bench: Home Assistant tying it all together, ESP32 + Raspberry Pi sensors and automations, HomeKit/Matter everywhere. Where I prototype the IoT ideas that show up in client work.
$ tail -f devlog
Latest writing
// Devlog launching soon. In the meantime — follow /blog.
$ echo $CONTACT
Got a project, a problem, or a half-formed idea?
I like building things and I like figuring things out, for work or just because. If you’ve got something fun, something broken, or something you can’t quite picture yet, say hi.