Alex built PDC Dev Studio and the Distil API after spending years navigating the gap between complex technical source material and the decisions it is supposed to support — a gap he encountered directly in Alaska aviation planning, airport access design, and infrastructure work for remote communities.
Before PDC, Alex led and contributed to aviation planning, airport access, geospatial visualization, and infrastructure resilience projects in Alaska. The work demanded rigorous documentation, long project timelines, stakeholder review across agencies, and technical decisions made under real terrain and weather constraints.
That background shaped PDC's core design instinct: difficult technical materials become more useful when they are organized, reviewable, and grounded in the conditions where decisions actually happen.
The name nods to an extinct Fairbanks, Alaska engineering company from the pipeline-building era — the founder's first professional stop after the Peace Corps, and later part of RESPEC's mining and geotechnical engineering lineage. The through-line is practical: plan carefully, design clearly, construct systems that survive contact with reality.