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Vicc Alexander is a senior engineer at Coinbase in San Francisco, CA. Before joining Coinbase, he was the co-founder and the Head of Design & Mobile Engineering at Polly. Polly participated in Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch and has been used by more than 40 million teens worldwide.

Previously he co-founded Whale, a video Q&A app, with Justin Kan (Founder of Twitch). In 2016, along with Marlon Lopez and Saul Lopez, he helped build LooBot, an SMS bot aimed at connecting those without wifi-access to gender-neutral restrooms and charging outlets nearby. It took the 1st place spot at Grindr's Hack 4 Equality hackathon.

Vicc graduated from UC Berkeley in 2014, with a degree in Art Practice, and a minor in Theater, Dance & Performance Studies. That same year he developed Chameleon, an open-source Swift framework, which to date has garnered over 11,000 stars on Github, has been downloaded more than 1 million times, and has been used in more than 30,000 apps.

In May 2017, Vicc also became a full-time writer for iOS Dev Weekly.