ALEX PENMAN
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Alex
Penman.

Partner & Software Developer
— HyperCode

Partner and software developer at HyperCode, based in Australia. Founder of Lit.land, a full-stack education marketplace spanning a Next.js web app and a React Native/Expo mobile app — comfortable owning a product end to end: architecture, frontend, backend, auth, payments, real-time and AI integrations, testing and production support.

Full-stack and mobile development, AI-integrated products and ed-tech — plus a decade of teaching across Australia, Thailand, France and Spain.

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LocationAustralia
OverlapFull APAC day · partial US/EU
Open toContract or full-time remote
Delivered forUS · UK · Australia · Japan · Dubai · India
LanguagesEnglish (native) · French/Spanish (C2) · Italian/Portuguese (B2) · German (B1) · Mandarin/Thai/Hebrew (A2) · Hindi (A1)
2+ yr
Shipping production software
1
Production platform founded — Lit.land
10+ yr
Teaching & tutoring experience
10
Languages spoken
What I'm hired to do

Full stack,
ops included.

Most projects pull the same lanes together — a Next.js/Supabase web app, its React Native/Expo mobile companion, and the Stripe, LiveKit and AI integrations both sides depend on.

Web engineering
2+ yr
Full-stack product builds — Next.js front ends over Supabase/Postgres, with automated linting, type-checking, unit and end-to-end tests on every release.
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSVitestPlaywright
Mobile engineering
<1 yr
Cross-platform React Native apps with Expo Router — camera, notifications, secure storage, SQLite, in-app purchases and native iOS/Android builds.
React NativeExpo RouterRevenueCatCocoaPods
Backend & data
2+ yr
Node.js services over Supabase/PostgreSQL, with Redis/Upstash caching and S3-compatible storage behind them.
Node.jsSupabasePostgreSQLRedisAWS S3
Cloud & DevOps
2+ yr
Vercel deploys and Linux/Debian VPS administration, with CI workflows and Docker/AWS/Azure/GCP familiarity.
VercelLinux/DebianGit/GitHubDocker
AI & platform integrations
1+ yr
Payments, real-time and AI wired into production: Stripe, LiveKit/WebRTC, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, plus TipTap/Yjs collaborative editing.
StripeLiveKitOpenAI APIAnthropic APITipTapYjs
Evidence

Numbers,
not adjectives.

Every line here is something designed, built and shipped end to end. Ask about any of them on the call — I'll walk you through how it's put together.

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FounderDesigned, built and shipped Lit.land end to end — a full-stack education marketplace spanning a Next.js/Supabase web app and a React Native/Expo mobile app
IntegrationsWired Stripe payments with reconciliation tooling, LiveKit/WebRTC real-time video and TipTap/Yjs collaborative editing into a single production platform
AIIntegrated OpenAI and Anthropic APIs for education-specific assessment and content workflows
QualityBuilt automated quality gates — linting, TypeScript checks, unit tests, end-to-end tests and production builds — into every release
Experience

Six years,
four continents' clients.

Graduate Certificate in Computer Science, Monash University (2025–2026). Master of Teaching (Secondary), University of Melbourne (2020–2023). BA — Spanish & Latin American Studies, Creative Writing, University of Melbourne (2012–2016). Diploma of Languages (French), University of Melbourne (2015–2016). 120-hour TESOL Master Course, LearnTEFL (2018).
Partner & Software Developer
HyperCode — Australia (remote)
[Add start date] – Present
Partners on client relationships and account management alongside Harshit, and works hands-on in the codebase across the projects they own.
Brings full-stack and mobile engineering — Next.js, React Native, Supabase — to HyperCode's client and internal work.
Next.jsReact NativeNode.js
Founder & Full-Stack Developer
Lit.land
2025 – Present
Designed and developed a production education platform combining tutoring, learning tools and marketplace functionality.
Built the web product with TypeScript, React and Next.js, backed by Supabase and integrated with cloud services and third-party APIs.
Implemented Stripe payments and commercial workflows, including payment reconciliation tooling, alongside LiveKit/WebRTC real-time video and TipTap/Yjs collaborative editing.
Integrated OpenAI and Anthropic APIs for education-specific assessment and content workflows, with Sentry monitoring, Redis, S3 storage and automated quality gates behind the release process.
Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseStripeLiveKitOpenAI API
Teacher & Independent Tutor
Australia, Thailand, France, Spain & Online
2016 – Present
Ten-plus years teaching Mathematics, Digital Technologies, English and languages across secondary schools, universities, language colleges and online.
Built the requirements-gathering, communication and debugging skills behind explaining complex concepts to widely varying technical backgrounds — then started building the software to solve problems found directly in that teaching work.
Curriculum designTESOLRequirements gathering
Selected work — all live

Shipped, in
production, in use.

Lit.land — an education marketplace and its mobile companion — with the Next.js, React Native, payments and AI integrations running behind both.

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2025 – now

Lit.land

Education marketplace

Full-stack tutoring, learning tools and marketplace platform — Next.js/Supabase web app and a React Native/Expo mobile companion, with Stripe payments, LiveKit real-time video, TipTap/Yjs collaborative editing and OpenAI/Anthropic AI integrations.

Next.jsReact NativeSupabaseStripeLiveKit
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2026

BulkYard

B2B marketplace

UK marketplace for surplus soil and aggregates — Stripe Connect escrow, subscription billing, in-app negotiation chat and automated Waste Transfer Notes.

ReactNodeMongoDBStripe ConnectGCP
bulkyard.co.uk
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2025 – now

Oxyhom Realty

Real estate

Property matchmaking platform on hybrid ISR/SSR rendering, with granular developer-to-micro-market topology and automated lead routing.

Next.jsMongoDBAWSGCP
oxyhom.com
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2026

Montra Electric

Brand platform

Commercial EV brand site for the Murugappa Group — full product range from three-wheelers to heavy trucks, built entirely low-code.

WebflowLow-code
montraelectric.com
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2026

Nirmalaya

Commerce

Shark Tank wellness brand: Shopify storefront for incense and attars made from recycled temple flowers, with gift bundling and cross-sell.

Shopify Dev
nirmalaya.com
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2022 – now

Efiles by AusLink

SaaS

Ticketing platform Australian accountants use with their clients — rich text editor, domain-based invites, watcher email notifications.

ReactNodeMongoDB
efiles.com.au
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2023

Get Set Admit

Ed-tech

Four-part admissions platform — super-admin, university, school and student dashboards plus a student mobile app, end to end.

ReactReact NativeNodeMongoDBAWS
getsetadmit.com
Also shipped
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BuzzBoxSmart home · MERN · Arduino
Human Machine InterfaceMedical touchscreen · FreeRTOS
IEEE Xplore paperBlockchain data privacy · 2020
How I work remotely

No timezone tax.

I work out of Australia, overlapping naturally with APAC hours and working async with the rest of the HyperCode team across India, the US, UK and Europe — ten-plus years of teaching means explaining technical decisions clearly is second nature, not an afterthought.

Overlap, not silence
Standups, reviews and pairing inside your working day, run from an Australian base.
Written by default
Decisions land in the PR, the ticket or a short doc — so the team keeps moving while I am offline.
Your tools, your process
Slack, Jira, Linear, GitHub, whatever you run. I adopt the workflow instead of importing mine.
Handover is the deliverable
Pipelines, dashboards and runbooks documented, so nothing depends on me staying.
Engagement terms

Hire me for
a sprint or
a quarter.

Contract, retainer or fractional lead — invoiced monthly, NDA and MSA on request, paid by wire or Wise. Fixed scope where the work is well defined, hourly where it isn't yet.

ModelsContract · retainer · fractional lead
MinimumOne-week scoped sprint
RateOn request
TrialPaid pilot ticket before any commitment
PaperworkNDA · MSA · invoiced monthly