Alan R. Soares · Product Engineer

I build products, and the tools people build them with.

Auckland now · 16°C · fog

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Product UI, SDKs and developer tools, from Auckland · New Zealand. 18 years, with teams including Xero, Axelar and All in Bits.

Now at Author-it, building content authoring tools for the AI age. Most of what I learn ends up on GitHub.

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01Product Work / 2026
Author-it
A component content management system (CCMS) for technical documentation, published to PDF, HTML, eLearning and AI agents.
My current role, as a product engineer.
CCMS · Structured content · AI · Product
author-it.com
02Experiment / 2026
Mochi
A small typed functional language that compiles to JavaScript and TypeScript. It is self-hosting.
Language · TypeScript · Hindley–Milner · Compiler
Playground GitHub
03Experiment / 2026
rescript-cube
An interactive 3D Rubik's Cube trainer with a beginner method coach, practice scrambles, and timer.
ReScript · Three.js · WebGL · 3D
Play GitHub
04Open Source / 2025–2026
onrails
Railway-oriented TypeScript: tagged Result and Maybe, exhaustive matching, ESLint and Biome rules, and a neverthrow codemod.
TypeScript · Functional programming · Codemods · npm
Docs GitHub npm
05Experiment / 2026
Ganymede
A deterministic WebGPU space autobattler with GPGPU simulation and a 3D design tool.
Game · WebGPU · TypeScript · Simulation
Play GitHub