Aleka C
Software Engineer at Nominal
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAleka C is a Lead Frontend Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building production-grade user interfaces for high-performance and consumer-facing products. She has driven frontend architecture and core trading UIs at dYdX and now leads frontend efforts at Quickscope, bringing deep knowledge of real-time interfaces like orderbooks, trades, and positions. Her background includes building shopping and product experiences at Instagram and early conversational AI and NLP platform work at Meta, giving her a rare mix of consumer UX sensibility and backend-integrated frontend systems. Comfortable across large-scale codebases and rapid iteration cycles, she focuses on shipping resilient, data-driven UIs that support complex workflows. Trained in both Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Northwestern, she blends technical rigor with an understanding of human-centered design. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic leader who elevates teams through clear engineering decisions and hands-on delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Northwestern University
Italian, Chinese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
nodejs9
staking8
chatbot7
python7
natural-language-processing7
nlp7
governance6
websocket6
machine-learning6
ai6
foundation6
webrtc5
dashboard5
ruby4
pnpm1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aforaleka/test-glitch-bio
Nov 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
aforaleka/aforaleka.github.io
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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