Alec Schneider
Angel Investor & Advisor at Outtake
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Schneider is an engineering leader and angel investor with 11 years building and shipping resilient software systems, most recently serving as Tech Lead at Palantir and now advising early-stage startup Outtake. He combines hands-on forward-deployed experience—solving complex customer problems in production—with product-minded engineering leadership across data-intensive platforms. An HPI-trained computer scientist, Alec’s background includes internships at Uber and SAP and recognition as an Apple WWDC Scholar, signaling strong foundations in systems and user-focused engineering. He balances strategic advising with active engineering roles, bringing a practitioner’s lens to product strategy and go-to-market technical execution. Notably, his career demonstrates a pattern of moving from deep implementation work into influence roles that help scale teams and early products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English
Github Skills (48)
react9
statusbar8
npm8
javascript8
nodejs8
window-manager7
raven7
test-runner7
typescript7
darwin7
sdk7
bundler7
transpiler7
jsx7
documentation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AlecSchneider/dotfiles
Jan 2018 - Oct 2024
My dotfiles
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
vimkarabinerdotfileshammerspoonzsh
AlecSchneider/nerdbar.widget
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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