Alex Mackowiak
Staff Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Mackowiak is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building distributed systems and mission-critical software at Anduril Industries after earning an MCS from UIUC. He progressed rapidly from new grad to staff engineer across multiple Anduril offices, focusing on scalable, production-grade systems that support defense-focused hardware and software integration. Alex blends hands-on coding with system design and mentorship, having taught CS courses during graduate school and interned at quantitative and web-scale companies like Two Sigma and GoDaddy. Based in New York, he brings practical experience across cloud, low-latency services, and embedded/system-adjacent software—often working where software meets physical systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers shipping robust, auditable solutions over academic elegance.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (32)
database9
document-database8
transactional8
golang8
key-value8
go7
war6
java-bytecode6
jar6
openjdk5
jna5
probability5
decompiler4
pytorch4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AlexMackowiak/RootkitDetection
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
AlexMackowiak/DecryptMeNot
Jul 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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