Alex Handy

Currently a PMM on Red Hat OpenShift, which I've helped to grow from $350 million to well over $1 billion of ARR. I have a passion for open source, non-profit work, and community building. I deal well with high growth, chaotic environments through prioritization, adaptation, and vision.

I founded the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, a non-profit, all-playable video game museum in Oakland, CA.

Two decades of journalism storytelling and oodles of technology experience from product design and release to ewaste recycling. I have taught or had my work used in classes at USF, SFSU, AAU, Hastings (Now UC Law SF), and Harvard Law. I have worked with the EFF, UC Berkeley's Samuelson Law Clinic, Stanford, MIT, and Archive.org to brief the US Copyright Office and change US copyright law. We won multiple exemptions to the DMCA, accepted and implemented by the Librarian of Congress.

My writings have appeared in Wired, Bloomberg, Make Magazine, The Austin American Statesman, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and many other outlets. I have been written about by the WSJ, Wired, and The Atlantic.

I was project lead on the first successful institutional preservation and rebooting of the first massively multiplayer game, Habitat, for the C64, from 1986: https://neohabitat.org . I've consulted and collaborated with Google, the NY MOMA, the Oakland Museum of California, SumoLogic, Cisco, Semtech, Twilio, Game Developers Conference, NGNX, the ADL, and the Library of Congress, on projects, contracts, and exhibitions.

I am on the board of directors of the Spritely Foundation: https://spritelyproject.org/ . Spritely is building the next generation of decentralized networking technology.

I am on the board of directors for Grassroots Open Assistive Tech (GOAT). Grassroots Open Assistive Tech’s purpose is to document, curate, preserve, make accessible, and freely share assistive technology designs and information under open licenses, as well as providing coordination and education to affiliated communities. We support disabled people in making their designs and builds available for public good, and in having free to use designs available to them for their own use. https://www.openassistivetech.org/