Albert Pai
CTO Founder at StackBlitz
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlbert Pai is a experienced CTO and founder based in Palo Alto with 13 years of software engineering and startup leadership, currently steering StackBlitz after founding and exiting Thinkster. He blends hands-on back-end expertise—demonstrated by contributions to well-known RealWorld example apps in both Rails and Node/Express, implementing authentication, APIs, and full CRUD flows—with strategic product and engineering leadership. Comfortable across the stack, he has a track record of shipping developer-facing platforms and infrastructure that prioritize API-first, JSON-driven workflows. His background in computer engineering and early roles in education and district IT give him a pragmatic, user-focused approach to building tools for developers and teams.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois ChicagoNaperville Central High School
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
api-rest10
ruby-rails10
mongoose10
devise10
authorizations10
expressjs10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
authentication10
user-authentication10
rails10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
api10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gothinkster/rails-realworld-example-app
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily focused on implementing back-end features for the application. They set up API settings and configured the application to respond to JSON requests. The user added user authentication with Devise and implemented core functionalities, including user profiles, article CRUD operations, article tagging, favoriting articles, adding comments, and creating a feed for users.
gothinkster/node-express-realworld-example-app
Jul 2016 - Jun 2017
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 17 PRs, 35 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily contributed to the back-end development of the application. They implemented core user authentication and profile management features, including user model creation, password hashing, and JWT-based authentication. The user also set up API endpoints for user login, registration, and profile updates. Furthermore, they added CRUD operations for articles and comments, along with article favoriting and following functionalities.
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