Summary
Alex Fang is a Senior Software Engineer in the Greater Seattle Area with 11 years of experience building backend systems and data pipelines across Facebook, Flexport, and SmithRx. He has deep experience in large-scale ad systems, compliance and transparency tooling, and logistics platforms—having driven measurable improvements like a 15% boost in shipment SLA accuracy and powered Ad Library indexing for millions of ads. Comfortable across languages and stacks (PHP/Hack, Ruby on Rails, Java, Python, Protobuf), Alex combines product-focused architecture with hands-on implementation of ingestion, storage, and adjudication systems. A University of Maryland graduate with minors in cybersecurity, entrepreneurship, and Chinese, he blends technical rigor with cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement. Notably, he has taken projects end-to-end—from designing archival and compliance processes at Meta to leading cross-team bulk-upload features at Flexport—demonstrating a knack for turning messy, fragmented data into reliable business-facing services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Winston Churchill High School
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Maryland
English, Chinese