Alejo Lifschitz
Tech Lead at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejo Lifschitz is a materials science manager and technical leader with over a decade of experience translating deep‑tech research into scalable hardware and commercial products. He combines a PhD and postdoctoral training in inorganic chemistry with hands‑on roles across industry leaders (Dow, DuPont, Meta/Facebook) to deliver advances in semiconductors, optics, and advanced materials. Alejo is adept at embedding AI/ML and automation into R&D and manufacturing workflows to accelerate discovery, improve reliability, and enable volume production. He has a track record of building cross‑functional programs—establishing supply chains, partner ecosystems, and IP strategy—to move technologies from lab to factory. Based in Redmond, WA, he pairs full‑stack development sensibilities from hobby work on GitHub with deep domain expertise, making him fluent at bridging software, hardware, and materials teams. Colleagues describe him as a leader who blends rigorous science with pragmatic engineering to de‑risk novel hardware at scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Inorganic Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Inorganic Chemistry at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry at Dickinson College
Github Skills (101)
resumable10
file-api9
uploader9
resumable-upload9
tus8
duktape8
image-slider8
docker-container8
multipart8
simultaneous8
docker-compose7
react-component7
wordpress7
pantheon7
amazon-dynamodb7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alejodaraio/cloudflare-php
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 46 commits, 42 pushes in 12 days
Artear/ReactResumableJS
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Creates an uploader component in React, to use with Resumable JS
Contributions:5 releases, 90 commits, 33 PRs in 9 months
reactjsreactresumableuploader
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