Albert Zhang
Software Engineer at Dots (YC S21)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlbert Zhang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience blending security, systems, and scientific software, currently at Dots (YC S21) and contributing to multi-messenger astronomy at Columbia's GECo. He has built production-grade tooling from a custom Linux Security Module and firmware-level cryptographic protocols to realtime Python libraries (LLAMA) that search for coincident neutrinos after gravitational-wave alerts. Comfortable across low-level reverse engineering, containerized deployment, Kafka-based streaming, and full-stack features (including Svelte frontends), he bridges research and product needs while collaborating with teams like IceCube and LVK. Notably, his work has both hardened large-scale networked devices and produced research-grade open-source tools used in live scientific alert systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
State College Area High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science and Astrophysics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Astrophysics at Columbia University
Github Skills (200)
unpack10
simulator10
firmware10
ascii10
keyboard-layout10
vlc10
user-interface10
frontend10
twitch10
python10
showdown10
slug10
normalization10
ssl10
repack10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
alchzh/HogwartsWerewolves
Nov 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
alchzh/shirayuki
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Improved tournament bot derived from https://github.com/kgurazad/tournament-bot/
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
botpythonderivedimproved
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