Indianapolis Native

Developer. Musician. Collaborator.

Just kidding about that last one. Maybe.

I design high-performance software with thoughtful UX, and I love every part of creating music.

If you want to talk products, performance, UX, music, opportunities, or just connect as a fellow human, you are in the right place.

Alec Rollison can get 1s out of `/dev/zero`.

What drives me

I am a man of three quests:

Code

I love the internet, and I am passionate about building software on it for and with anyone who is interested. I love making people's lives better, more fun, and less painful. I love innovative and clever technologies, and I also love beautiful and intuitive user interfaces. I also love music software and am working on software that interfaces with DAWs, like file-management systems, a music platform for musicians, and novel convolution-based audio plugins.

Explore my work

Music

Music is basically part of the fundamental architecture of my brain. I love to improvise it with anyone who is interested. I love to produce it. I love owning every aspect of the production of a song. I love songwriting. I love folk music like Fleet Foxes, Joni Mitchell, and Nick Drake, and I am enamored with my acoustic guitar. I love electronic music like Pretty Lights, Porter Robinson, and HOME. I love the fine details of sound design and interesting textures in music. I love rock music—everything from the Beatles to Causa Sui, Khruangbin, Crumb, Tame Impala, and the Arctic Monkeys. I want to create a fusion genre that is folk, rock, and electronic; that blends composed and improvised music; and that is danceable while still deeply introspective and personal. I also think things like genre and scale—really, any constraint—are optional. I am very open to collaborating with anyone who is interested.

More about my music

Community

I am eager to meet people and find others that I can work with, play with, dance with, build with, adventure with, and more. I am excited to engineer a future full of fun and joy for everyone. This quest somewhat depends on the other two: code and music are both ways to create that future together.

Find ways to connect

If any of this sounds like your kind of future, reach out.

I would love to hear from people who want to build useful software, make or improvise music, start a project, form a community, dance, adventure, or invent something joyful that does not have a name yet.

Work

Useful software with a human reason behind it.

I have built tools for real workflows, small business websites, playful creative interfaces, and music-centered systems that turn theory into something a person can actually use.

Some of that work is about clarity: making a local business easier to understand, making an interface feel less scattered, or helping someone get to the next useful action. Some of it is about curiosity: building tools that understand chords, MIDI settings, and harmonic relationships, with little moments of personality that make software feel alive.

See the Work Page

Some Technologies I've Worked With

TypeScript: Used for structured front-end tools and app experiments, including prompt, budget, MIDI, calculator, and package projects.
JavaScript: Used for browser behavior, small automation scripts, Express experiments, Google Apps Script utilities, and interactive music tools.
Browser extensions: Used for workflow tools that live inside the browser, including capturing, organizing, and reusing prompts without leaving the page.
HTML & CSS: Used for hand-built interfaces, responsive layouts, landing pages, portfolio work, and small business sites.
Go: Used for command-line and backend-leaning experiments, including image-to-ASCII conversion and Mattermost plugin work.
Node.js, Express & APIs: Used for server basics, deployable endpoints, API examples, and chord-function tools that expose music data through code.
Shell scripting: Used for local utilities, setup scripts, and workflow helpers like transcription-related command-line scripts.
React, Vue & Vite: Used to turn product ideas into testable front-end prototypes quickly, especially when forms, state, and repeated UI patterns need to stay organized.
Postgres: Used when an app needs reliable records, relationships, and queries instead of temporary browser-only state.
C, C++, Assembly & Scheme: Used to build a stronger mental model for memory, performance, recursion, and how higher-level tools behave underneath the abstraction.
Python 3: Used for quick automation and file-processing scripts that make cleanup, setup, and repeatable local workflows less manual.
WordPress: Built and adjusted content-managed sites so non-developers can update pages, menus, and copy without needing a developer for every small change.