Alex Takahashi
Software Engineer at TikTok
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Takahashi is an iOS-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building mobile experiences for major consumer platforms, currently shipping at TikTok after engineering roles at Instagram and Facebook. He combines hands-on UI engineering—custom components, MapKit-driven floorplans, and TextKit rich text layout—with product-focused delivery, having led an Agile iOS team and managed TestFlight-driven QA cycles at SAP. Comfortable across enterprise and consumer contexts, Alex emphasizes performance, memory safety, accessibility, and multi-language support while mentoring junior engineers and onboarding cross-functional stakeholders. Based in Berkeley, he brings a creator’s curiosity and a willingness to take risks, informed by early work on tvOS and A/B experiments and a background in bioengineering from UC Berkeley. Non-obvious: he pairs deep UI craftsmanship with systems-level debugging (Allocations/Zombies, Core Animation) to squeeze consistent 60 fps experiences out of complex mobile apps.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Sophomore, Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Sophomore at University of California, BerkeleyWalnut High School
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
41reputation
350reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (30)
swift8
data-structures8
snapshots8
nimble8
algorithms7
fbsnapshottestcase7
jekyll6
xcode6
android-app6
jekyll-theme6
drag-and-drop6
cocoa6
ios6
snapshot-testing5
testing5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alextakahashi/SAPFioriBikes
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:43 commits, 3 pushes in 1 day
alextakahashi/resume-template-software-engineer
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:135 reviews, 23 commits, 19 PRs in 2 days
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