Alex Liu
Senior Software Engineer HRIS Flow Platform
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Liu is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience who blends full‑stack product delivery and engineering leadership across startups and finance. As founding engineer at Fieldguide he shipped multiple zero‑to‑one features and instituted engineering rigor to scale the platform using React, GraphQL/Hasura, Node.js, PostgreSQL, and AWS. He transitioned from a successful trading and research background at Barclays—where he built R/Shiny financial tools and pitched profitable trades—bringing a strong quantitative and business mindset to engineering. Now at Rippling, he continues to drive customer‑focused outcomes, whether optimizing UI or tuning database queries. Comfortable moving between code, product, and business strategy, he’s passionate about using technology as a force for good and retains a keen interest in investing and market dynamics. An Amherst CS graduate who studied abroad in Budapest, he combines academic curiosity with hands‑on startup grit.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Amherst CollegeStudy Abroad, Computer Science, Study Abroad, Computer Science at AIT-BudapestInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Shanghai High School International Division
English, Chinese
Github Skills (38)
graphql-api10
sql-server10
api10
access-control10
rest-api10
mongodb10
webhooks9
hasura9
bigquery9
r-library9
subgraph9
haskell9
amazon-certificate-manager9
graphql9
rscript8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aaalexliu/interview-prep
Dec 2020 - Aug 2023
Contributions:212 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
alexliusq/margins-frontend
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:168 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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