App Builder 101
ShapeDiver's CTO Alex Schiftner on why we built App Builder, what it supports, how it works under the hood, and what comes next.
Alex Schiftner
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Alex Schiftner
Co-founder & CTO
Alex designed the technology ShapeDiver runs on. Before he studied applied mathematics, he spent eight years in customer support and DevOps for a European provider of fleet management systems for taxis - useful training for running a cloud service. After graduating, he led Evolute for almost a decade, developing computational solutions to hard geometry problems on large building projects with firms such as Zaha Hadid Architects and Snøhetta. He has been automating CAD processes for about 20 years.
Posts by Alex Schiftner
Behind ShapeDiver: How We Scale Grasshopper For Cloud Applications!
CTO Alex Schiftner on how ShapeDiver began in 2015 and how it runs Grasshopper in the cloud at scale: dispatching, the three principles, and caching.
Alex Schiftner