Alex Yu
Staff Software Engineer at Oscar Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Yu is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend platforms and care-delivery systems at Oscar Health, where he has progressed from intern to technical lead and now shapes production services at scale. He is fluent in Python, Go, and JavaScript and routinely architects systems using Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka, and a mix of relational and search datastores. Alex combines strong engineering rigor from a Columbia magna cum laude background in mathematics and computer science with hands-on ownership of critical subsystems like secure messaging, e-prescribing, and call services. He favors pragmatic technology choices and is comfortable adopting new tools to solve domain-specific problems. Colleagues rely on him for designing resilient, data-driven services that improve patient and member experiences across complex healthcare workflows. A detail that often surprises peers: he began at Oscar implementing an RPC call service as an intern and has iteratively expanded that operational mindset into leading platform-wide care delivery infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics Computer Science at Columbia University
English, Latin, Chinese
Github Skills (57)
monitoring10
pylint10
online-algorithms10
python-extension10
time-series10
intellisense10
prometheus-exporter10
system-monitoring10
prometheus10
shared-libraries10
graphing10
vscode-extension9
streaming-algorithms9
docker9
statistics9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexander-yu/stream
Jul 2018 - Apr 2022
An online statistics library, written in Go
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 264 commits in 3 years 10 months
data-structuresgogolangonline-algorithmsstatistics
alexander-yu/spotifypp
Aug 2017 - Sep 2020
Enhancing the Spotify playlist experience
Contributions:21 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
spotifyenhancingplaylistspotify-apispotify-playlist
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