Alex Simoes is a software developer with over 10 years of data visualisation and data management experience. He is a founding member of Datawheel [datawheel.us] and graduate of the MIT Media Lab, where he focused on creating data decision-making tools and using visual techniques to understand data. As part of his master's thesis, he developed The Observatory of Economic Development [oec.world], a public data platform used to visualize world trade flows with 50 years worth of data from more than 200 countries and 5,000 products. He has led the development of DataViva [legacy.dataviva.info], a collaborative planning tool for subnational governments in Brazil, Data USA [datausa.io], the largest and most comprehensive representation of U.S. data online and Trade Estonia [data.stat.ee], a recently launched trade data platform for Statistics Estonia.