Music / worldbuilding
The Bad Mentors
A band project about unreliable narrators, self-appointed guides, and the uneasy possibility of repair.
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I make complex work
clearer, kinder,
and more useful.
I’m Aubrey Alexander: a software engineer focused on UI, systems, and design—and the people using what gets built.
Find your way inStart here
A few doors
into the work.
The throughline
A song can carry a difficult truth. A piece of software can make an unfair system visible. A design can make room for consent, context, and someone afraid of being misunderstood.
The work braids story, systems, humor, and evidence. The joke is never the point. It is how a hard thing becomes possible to hold.
Selected worlds
Different forms.
The same question.
Who gets believed—and what might change if the people inside a bad system could see its shape?
Writing / memoir
Basement Boys
An in-progress memoir about childhood improvisation, technology, friendship, belonging, and the systems people learn to survive.
In progressFiction / speculative systems
Mindframe
A serialized speculative-fiction project where a public search for the President of Earth becomes something much stranger.
In developmentSoftware / design systems
Tools for opting out
Practical software and interfaces that make patterns visible, preserve context, and let people choose a kinder next step.
Selected work to comeAbout
The intensity
is care.
Aubrey works across writing, music, software, film, interface design, and UX. Those are not separate lanes: they are instruments in one practice.
He makes work for weird, over-responsible kids who grew into over-responsible adults—and for the people who love them. The aim is to make someone feel seen, less alone, and a little braver.
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