Alex Chomiak
Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Chomiak is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building production-grade fullstack applications, currently contributing at Affirm after recent senior roles at Amazon and Fetch. He combines front-end expertise in ReactJS and AngularJS with backend skills in Express, MongoDB, Socket.IO and Redis to deliver real-time, scalable features. A quick study and excellent problem solver, Alex has repeatedly transitioned from startup environments to large-scale systems like Amazon Flex while maintaining hands-on coding and delivery focus. He holds a Master of Computer Science from the University of Illinois and began his career shipping full-stack products at LCP Media. Colleagues rely on him to bridge UX-driven front-end work with robust backend architectures, and he brings an engineer’s pragmatism to complex system trade-offs. Based in Chicago, he pairs academic rigor with practical production experience, often surfacing elegant solutions that simplify operational complexity.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Illinois ChicagoMaster of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lockport Township High School East
Polish, English
Github Skills (55)
uic9
mongodb8
horizontal-scrolling8
nodejs8
sveltekit7
minecraft7
javascript7
backup7
typescript7
nestjs7
photo-gallery7
react7
flutter7
svelte6
photo6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
alexchomiak/LAN-pong
Oct 2019 - Oct 2020
A python implementation of pong built for multiplayer purposes
Contributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 17 pushes in 11 months
multiplayerpython
alexchomiak/goto-react-app-2.0
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 months
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